Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence

Bethan Jones is a lecturer in English at the University of Hull, UK.

• Contents: Foreword; Lawrence and late style; The 'nettles' and 'last poems' notebooks; Etruscan connections; Beyond the Chatterley machines; Elements of the pre-Socratics; All sorts of gods; Apocalyptic symbols; Ascension and carpentry; How to make an end; Bibliography; Index.

Prize: Winner of The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America, Biennial Award to a Newly Published Scholar in Lawrence Studies 2011 'Meticulously researched and full of interesting insights, The Last Poems of D. H. Lawrence is an important contribution to Lawrence studies and to more general understandings of modernist poetics'. Sandra M. Gilbert, University of California, Davis, USA '[an] illuminating study...' Modern Language Review 'This welcome book is one I plan to reread. Involved in the late twentieth-century renaissance of Lawrence studies at the University of Nottingham and interested in Lawrence's complex verse manuscripts, Bethan Jones brings precise observation and apt interpretation to the poetry. This new study, moreover, takes up the least scoured period of Lawrence's career as a poet: 1927 through 1930. ... This major new book offers nothing less than a transformative re-vision of Lawrence.' D. H. Lawrence Review