The Intelligent Heart: The Story Of D.H. Lawrence
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
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Few literary lives burned as fiercely — or as briefly — as that of David Herbert Lawrence, and The Intelligent Heart stands as one of the most authoritative and intimate biographies ever written about this towering figure of modern literature. Harry T. Moore chronicles Lawrence's extraordinary journey from the coal-mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, through a life of restless exile across Europe, Australia, and the American Southwest, tracing how poverty, passion, and an unrelenting creative vision shaped the man behind such landmark works as Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. The central conflict is both external and deeply personal: Lawrence's ceaseless war against the mechanisation of modern society and the repression of the human spirit, fought through prose of electrifying intensity. Moore brings to this biography the rigour of a seasoned scholar and the narrative drive of a master storyteller, drawing on a wealth of correspondence, firsthand accounts, and previously unpublished material to present a portrait that is as psychologically penetrating as it is historically rich. He argues convincingly that Lawrence's controversial themes — sexuality, class, nature, and the unconscious — were not provocations for their own sake, but the honest outcries of a man trying to heal the fractured soul of the modern world. Written with clarity and deep critical intelligence, The Intelligent Heart leaves the reader questioning whether any society has yet caught up with what Lawrence was trying to say.
Author: Harry T. Moore
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Heinemann, London
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj
Few literary lives burned as fiercely — or as briefly — as that of David Herbert Lawrence, and The Intelligent Heart stands as one of the most authoritative and intimate biographies ever written about this towering figure of modern literature. Harry T. Moore chronicles Lawrence's extraordinary journey from the coal-mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, through a life of restless exile across Europe, Australia, and the American Southwest, tracing how poverty, passion, and an unrelenting creative vision shaped the man behind such landmark works as Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. The central conflict is both external and deeply personal: Lawrence's ceaseless war against the mechanisation of modern society and the repression of the human spirit, fought through prose of electrifying intensity. Moore brings to this biography the rigour of a seasoned scholar and the narrative drive of a master storyteller, drawing on a wealth of correspondence, firsthand accounts, and previously unpublished material to present a portrait that is as psychologically penetrating as it is historically rich. He argues convincingly that Lawrence's controversial themes — sexuality, class, nature, and the unconscious — were not provocations for their own sake, but the honest outcries of a man trying to heal the fractured soul of the modern world. Written with clarity and deep critical intelligence, The Intelligent Heart leaves the reader questioning whether any society has yet caught up with what Lawrence was trying to say.