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ature and his writings do not have any genre boundary. He wrote
novels, tales, short stories, travel books, literary criticism,
critical essays, poems, and even made some excursions into the
area of painting. But he mastered above all the novel and in the
novel he was considered an innovative genius* He was aware of
this?
“And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the
saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who
are all great masters of different bits of man alivef but
never get the whole hog.”(SPS 12*f)
He was not only a novelist but also a saint, sinner, scientist,
wizard, philosopher, prophet, and poet, who looked for the light
in the darkness and for the dark in the light.
In a sense, Lawrence’s works are full of contradictions except
for one things his main concern was always with human relations,
with their importance and frequent falsity. On this
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basis he also found "the serpent of sex coiled round the root of
all our actions."(PAU 201)
In pursuit of that central root of human consciousness he
proposed to elevate the sexual theme, to show that it had the
dignity of any other human or "spiritual” relationships.
the time he was young until he was a mature man, in his last
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phase as a writer, he tried to emphasizes sex as a means to improve
the relationships between man and woman. Because of this
he was prosecuted several times and his books were banned. He
was censored all his life, even by men of such literary Influence
as T.S,Eliot who talked of Lawrence’s "sexual morbidity"(FRL 22)
in After Strange Gods.
Lady Chatterlevfs LoverT his last novel dealing with this