D.H. Lawrence

Introduction
Youth and early career
Sons and Lovers
The Rainbow and Women in Love
Later life and works
Poetry and nonfiction
Legacy

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Also known as: David Herbert Lawrence

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Michael H. Black

Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Former University Publisher, Cambridge University Press. Author of D.H. Lawrence: The Early Fiction and others.

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Oct. 14, 2026 •History

D.H. Lawrence (born September 11, 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England—died March 2, 1930, Vence, France) was an English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. His novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920) made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. Lawrence was the fourth child of a north Midlands coal miner who had worked from the age of 10...

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