D h lawrence study of thomas hardy pdf

The other essays in this volume span virtually the whole of Lawrence's writing career, from 'Art and the Individual' to his last essay 'John Galsworthy', written in The introduction sets these essays in the context of Lawrence's life and work. The textual apparatus gives variant readings, and explanatory notes identify references and quotations, and offer background information.

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Onto this fundamental antithesis, Lawrence grafts a number of others, always insisting on the coexistence of both sides of the opposition. Indeed the overstrong adherence to a metaphysic usually destroys any possibility of form. Lawrence and the Idea of the Novel Totowa, N. Lawrence, The Letters of D.

Lawrence, vol. Lawrence inherited much of his passionate imagination from Thomas Hardy, who might be called his spiritual father. Lawrence himself acknowledges in the Study of Thomas Hardy , his longest and most serious work of criticism, that Hardy was his master and the principal influence. Like Hardy, Lawrence transcended the view of man in society characteristic of Victorian fiction and created his characters as elemental men and women.

Like Hardy, Lawrence had a cosmic mind and he evoked in his fiction the feeling of mysterious bonds between human existence and the natural universe.

Lawrence revived in the British fiction of the early twentieth century the awareness of the natural, which Hardy emphasised in his novels, short stories and poems.

As John Paterson has observed:. If Hardy was dear to Lawrence, it was because he rehabilitated not only Nature as a source of mystery and miracle, but Man himself.

He envisaged human existence in terms of duality. Although fascinated by Hardy, Lawrence rejected his treatment of characters. They are hardly susceptible to external circumstances and they develop their selfhood to the full in search for new life.

However, the Lawrentian natural universe is quite similar to that of Hardy: humans are united with nature by primeval bonds that modern industrial culture tries to destroy. Like Hardy, Lawrence pointed to the evil of the rapidly expanding industrialisation of England, which deprives men and women of their natural instincts and personal freedom.

For Hardy and Lawrence human life is split between a conscious rational essence and an unconscious, biological natural existence. Man has been disabled by escape from nature and acceptance of modern industrial civilisation which imposes arbitrary laws and artificial order incompatible with the laws of nature. Lawrence believed that through sexual relations, which are based on the authentic union between man and woman, people can regain their human dignity and sense of living.

Lawrence rejected Christian faith even at an earlier age than Hardy, when he was He read Schopenhauer when he was in his early twenties and he appears to have assimilated the ideas of Schopenhauer as well as those of William James and Friedrich Nietzsche together with the scientific discoveries of Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.