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attitudes.
In this respect, it is especially worth noting H,M,Daleski's
The Forked Flame, George H, Ford’s Double Measure, and R,E, Pritchard's
Body of Darkness,
Daleski, a very serious and eteir critic, is completely a-
ware of Lawrence's dualities. He relates everything to a double
rhythm of life in Lawrence, The author's first period, the peri«
od of The White Peacock and Sons and Lovers, is "The Duality";
the second is the period of-H Two in One11, and the third, "One Up,
One Down", He even presents us a complete table of Lawrence's
opposing tendencies,(TFF 30) But what interests me most of all
in Daleski.is the nature of our agreement about Lawrence's puritanism*
He admits Lawrence's problems with the "dark sex"
which I shall discuss later, but he avoids asserting strong arguments
against him, as in Pritchard's case. Indirectly, though,
Daleski accuses Lawrence of remaining a puritan and of having
too much "sex in the head",
George H, Ford's critical study as its title declares, is
one of a Double Measure» Ford unfolds the oppositions in Lawrence's
characters and his divided vision of life and death forces,
The analysis is in exact agreement with my own when we say
that Lawrence is a controversial puritan and his most controversial
passages are about sex. So far, Ford is one of the few who
have found some contrasting rhythms in the early Lawrence of The
White Peacock, However, it seems to me that he is not particularly
critical of Lawrence's puritanism.
RoE,Pritchard deals openly with "dark sex”(anality) and
makes in fact a Freudian approach to Lawrence's works. Some -