PENGUIN TWENTIETH - CENTURY CLASSICS STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE David Herbert Lawrence was born in a miner's family at Eastwood , Nottinghamshire , in 1885 , the fourth of five children . He attended Beauvale Board School ...
Landmark volume of D. H. Lawrence's writings on American literature including major essays on Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman.
The author of such classics as Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow critically examines classic American literature in this collection of essays.
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." ― D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) Studies in Classic...
'Lawrence Asserted That 'The Proper Function Of A Critic Is To Save The Tale From The Artist Who Created It' In These Highly Individual, Penetrating Essays He Has Exposed 'The American Whole Soul' Within Some Of That Continent'S Major Works ...