T H E S I S

B. Prior Scholarship
In his introductory essay to D.H.Lawrence - A Selection^
P„J*Shepherd, a senior lecturer at Eastbourne College, says:
t One thing is certain about Lawrence: it is impossible to
remain indifferent to him." (SPS 1)
I would also say that it is impossible to remain indifferent to
Lawrence's dominant theme: sex«’
There is a great quantity of scholarly and critical material
concerning Lawrence's work. Some of his biographers and
critics were his contemporaries and friends like Richard Aldington
and Harry T«, Moore. Some of them were called as witnesses
for the defence in the Trial of Lady Chatterley in London in
1960s Graham Hough, Vivian de Sola Pinto, Richard Hoggart, Rebecca
West, Kenneth Muir, Stephen Potter, and even a person of
such a literary stature as E.M.Forster, to mention only a few.
According to R.Aidington more than 600 books, essays, and
articles on Lawrence were written up to 1950«(PGB 353) And according
to Graham Hough, giving evidence in the trial, in I960
there were over 800 books about Lawrence’s work.(TTL k2) The 606s
were the most active period of all ~ especially in America - the
number of articles was staggering.
Of course, in most biographies and criticisms I have found
many points of contact with my subject and I will take advantage
of those which are in the same line of thought. As a rule, although
the critics may widely diverge in their approach to Lawrence’s
work, they generally agree in discussing his bipolar