D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September, 1885 – 2 March, 1930) was one of the most important, prolific and controversial English writers of the 20th century, whose output spans novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. These works, taken together, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, sexuality, and instinctive behaviour, making him iconic in an age influenced by Freud and Nietzsche.

List of Lawrence's writings

A note on the editions cited below

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D H Lawrence is one of the great literary artists of the twentieth century - yet the texts of his writings, whether published during his lifetime or since, are, for the most part, textually corrupt.

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The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D H Lawrence represents a major scholarly undertaking, which aims to provide new versions of the texts which are as close as can now be determined to those which the author would have wished to see printed. This ongoing project, started in 1979, will eventually encompass over 40 separate volumes, each complete with a high quality critical apparatus. The following list is based around the books in this authoritative standard edition. In general, where a text is not yet available in the Cambridge series, reference has been made to other reliable sources.

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Novels

• The White Peacock (1911), edited by Andrew Robertson, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0521222672
• The Trespasser (1912), edited by Elizabeth Mansfield, Cambridge University Press,1981, ISBN 0521222648
• Sons and Lovers (1913), edited by Helen Baron and Carl Baron, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0521242762
• The Rainbow (1915), edited by Mark Kinkead-Weekes, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0521009448
• Women in Love (1920), edited by David Farmer, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0521235650
• The Lost Girl (1920), edited by John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1981, ISBN 052122263X
• Aaron's Rod (1922) edited by Mara Kalnins, Cambridge University Press, 1988,ISBN 0521252504
• Kangaroo (1923) edited by Bruce Steele, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0521384559
• The Boy in the Bush (1924), edited by Paul Eggert, Cambridge University Press, 1990, ISBN 052130704X
• The Plumed Serpent (1926), edited by L.D. Clark, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0521222621
• The Escaped Cock/The Man Who Died (1929)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover(1928), edited by Michael Squires, Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 0521222664
• The Virgin and the Gypsy (1930)

Short stories

• The Prussian Officer and other stories (1914), edited by John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0521248221
• England, my England and other stories (1922), edited by Bruce Steele, Cambridge University Press, 1990, ISBN 0521352673
• The Ladybird, The Fox, The Captain's Doll (1923), edited by Dieter Mehl, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0521352665
• St Mawr and other stories (1925), edited by Brian Finney, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0521222656
• The Woman who Rode Away and other stories (1928) edited by Dieter Mehl and Christa Jansohn, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 0521222702
• The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories (1930), edited by Michael Herbert, Bethan Jones, Lindeth Vasey, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (forthcoming), ISBN 100521366070
• Love Among the Haystacks and other stories (1930), edited by John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0521268362
• Collected Stories (1994) - Everyman's Library, a comprehensive one volume edition that prints all sixty two of Lawrence's shorter fictions in chronological sequence

Poetry

• Love Poems and others (1913)
• Amores (1916)
• Look! We have come through! (1917)
• New Poems (1918)
• Bay: a book of poems (1919)
• Tortoises (1921)
• Birds, beasts and flowers (1923)
• The Collected Poems of D H Lawrence (1928)
• Pansies (1929)
• Nettles (1930)
• Last Poems (1932)
• Fire and other poems (1940)
• The Complete Poems of D H Lawrence (1964), ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts

Plays

• The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1914)
• Touch and Go (1920)
• David (1926)
• The Fight for Barbara (1933)
• A Collier's Friday Night (1934)
• The Married Man (1940)
• The Merry-go-round (1941)
• The Complete Plays of D H Lawrence (1965)
• The Plays, edited by Hans-Wilhelm Schwarze and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0521242770

Non-fiction

• Study of Thomas Hardy and other essays (1914), edited by Bruce Steele, Cambridge University Press, 1985, ISBN 0521252520 - Literary criticism and metaphysics
• Movements in European History (1921), edited by Philip Crumpton, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0521262011 - Originally published under the name of Lawrence H. Davison, it was written as a school textbook
• Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious (1921/1922), edited by Bruce Steele, Cambridge University Press, 2004 ISBN 0521327911
• Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), edited by Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0521550165
• Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and other essays (1925), edited by Michael Herbert, Cambridge University Press, 1988, ISBN 052126622X
• A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover(1929) - Lawrence wrote this pamphlet to explain his most notorious novel
• Apocalypse and the writings on Revelation (1931) edited by Mara Kalnins, Cambridge University Press, 1980, ISBN 0521224071 - His last book touching on primitive symbolism, paganism and pre-Christian ideology
• Phoenix: the posthumous papers of D H Lawrence (1936)
• Phoenix II: uncollected, unpublished and other prose works by D H Lawrence (1968)
• Introductions and Reviews, edited by N. H. Reeve and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0521835844
• Late Essays and Articles, edited by James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0521584310

Travel books

• Twilight in Italy and Other Essays (1916), edited by Paul Eggert, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0521268885
• Sea and Sardinia (1921), edited by Mara Kalnins,Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0521242754
• Mornings in Mexico (1927)
• Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian essays (1932), edited by Simonetta de Filippis, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0521252539

Works translated by Lawrence

• Lev Isaakovich Shestov All Things are Possible (1920)
• Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin The Gentleman from San Francisco (1922), tr. with S. S. Koteliansky
• Giovanni Verga Maestro-Don Gesualdo (1923)
• Giovanni Verga Little Novels of Sicily (1925)
• Giovanni Verga Cavalleria Rusticana and other stories (1928)
• Antonio Francesco Grazzini The story of Doctor Manente (1929)

Manuscripts and early drafts of published novels and other works

Scholarly studies of Lawrence's existing manuscripts reveal him to have been a careful writer. He often revised his novels in a radical way by rewriting them, often over a period of years. Given this, it is interesting to compare these earlier drafts with the final, published versions

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• Paul Morel (1911-12), edited by Helen Baron, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0521560098 - an early manuscript version of Sons and Lovers
• The First Women in Love (1916-17) edited by John Worthen and Lindeth Vasey,Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0521373263
• Mr Noon (1920?) - Parts I and II, edited by Lindeth Vasey, Cambridge University Press, 1984, ISBN 0521252512
• The Symbolic Meaning - early versions of the Studies in Classic American Literature essays
• Quetzalcoatl (1925), edited by Louis L Martz, W W Norton Edition, 1998, ISBN 0-8112-1385-4 - Early draft of The Plumed Serpent
• The First and Second Lady Chatterley novels, edited by Dieter Mehl and Christa Jansohn, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0521471168. These two books,The First Lady Chatterley and John Thomas and Lady Jane were earlier drafts of Lawrence's last novel

Letters

• The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume I, September 1901 - May 1913, ed. James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 1979, ISBN 100521221471
• The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume II, June 1913 - October 1916, ed. George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 1981, ISBN 100521231116
• The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume III, October 1916 - June 1921, ed. James T. Boulton and Andrew Robertson, Cambridge University Press, 1984, ISBN 100521231124
• The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume IV, June 1921 - March 1924 , ed. Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton and Elizabeth Mansfield, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 100521006953
• The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume V, March 1924 - March 1927, ed. James T. Boulton and Lindeth Vasey, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 100521006961
• The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume VI, March 1927 - November 1928 , ed. James T. Boulton and Margaret Boulton with Gerald M. Lacy, Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN 100521006988
• The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume VII, November 1928 - February 1930, ed. Keith Sagar and James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 100521006996
• The Letters of D. H. Lawrence,with index, Volume VIII, ed. James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 100521231175
• The Selected Letters of D H Lawrence, Compiled and edited by James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 100521401151