Article: D. H. Lawrence, working poets, and political correctness.(Critical Essay)

AT MANY UNIVERSITIES in England and America, D. H. Lawrence has been dropped from the curriculum. Lawrence is seldom if ever taught as a major figure to whom a semester is devoted, is only marginally included in survey courses, and only here and there does one or another of his four "renowned" novels make its way onto a syllabus. Starting around 1985, academic books about his work always begin with a postmortem reflection on his stature. Peter Widdowson, editor of D. H. Lawrence (1992), looking back at the gala years of Lawrence's reputation, argues that it was bound to falter. Feminism and New Left Marxism exposed the Leavisian "proletarian writer-hero and prophet of ...

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