D.H. Lawrence

>>8853803
He's a hack. If he were alive right now he'd be a cancerous /pol9k/ frogfaggot

>>8853803
I hear his poetry's good. His novels are second-rate by modernist standards, closer to Hardy except without the gothic-romantic genius. The few short stories of his that I've read were better, similar to Maugham but still lacking.

Can anyone give me a good sample of his verse?

>>8853822
That's false. He's a good writer, in a very quiet way. If you like Graham Greene, I think you'll like D.H. Lawrence.

>>8853870
The only thing I've read are his poems and they're mediocre

Also, he reminds me of Warren Beatty in McCabe and Mrs Miller. Every time I see one of his photos, that's all I see.

>>8853876
That's funny, because I actually consider Hardy to be a slightly better poet than novelist. Here's the catch: I've never really understood poetry except for a few sublime moments of clarity, so verse has always retained an element of mystery to me. I can compare Hardy to other novelists of his era and judge him to be lesser, but his poetry eludes me simply because I don't really "get" what they're meant to do. I've read a lot of Nabokov's poetry, but I can tell right away it's all secondary to his prose.

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>>8853870
>Can anyone give me a good sample of his verse?

Read Figs and Snake. If you liked them, read the rest of that collection.

>>8853910
Damn. Figs was bizarre. Pornographic even. I'm intrigued.