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Article: D.H. Lawrence governed by his rage, illness.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 6, 2003
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Byline: Colin Walters, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"I do believe the root of all my sickness is a sort of rage," D.H. Lawrence wrote during the last months of his life to the poet Wytter Bynner. Whether true or not in a literal sense, for Lawrence's health always was delicate, it was rage and encroaching illness that colored the writer's last decade. So "Body of Truth" seems a fitting title for Philip Callow's new volume of biography covering the years between 1919, when Lawrence left England pretty much for good, and his death at Vence on the French Riviera in March, 1930.
Mr. Callow's relationship with his subject is of long standing. He is at home in ...