The Poems 2 Volume Hardback Set

The first-ever critical edition of Lawrence's poems presents his published and manuscript verses in original form with comprehensive annotations.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), Christopher Pollnitz (Edited by)

9780521294294, Cambridge University Press

, published 21 March 2013

1425 pages
22.2 x 14.5 x 8.4 cm, 1.95 kg

'These two volumes [are] a wonder of persistent editorial effort and a brave struggle with textual complexity.' Dieter Mehl, Editionen in der Kritik

Lawrence began composing poems in 1905 and published eleven collections of his poetry between 1913 and 1932. This critical edition includes these collections as well as unpublished poetry preserved in his notebooks, freshly transcribed and annotated. A 1916 sequence of war poems, 'All of Us', is published for the first time. Poems and all versions of Lawrence's own prefaces to his collections of verse are in the first volume, while the second volume consists of explanatory notes, textual apparatus and a comprehensive study of the composition, publication and reception of the poetry. These two volumes complete the Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence, making his complete works now available in authoritative scholarly editions.

Volume I: General editor's preface
Chronology
Introduction
The Poems
Appendices. Volume II: Collections and cue-titles
Composition, publication, reception
Textual notes, textual apparatus, explanatory notes
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Poetry by individual poets [DCF], Poetry [DC]