AWARDED
THE PULITZER
PRIZE FOR POETRY
" ••• one of the best
books an American
Poet has ever written.
the people of the future
will read her just as they
will read Dickinson or
Whitman or Stevens."
Randall Jarrell
$3.50
H.M.Co.
The year's most
talked-about novel
practices ... of
the most
famous French
intellectuaIs."
-N.Y.Times
•
A distinguished critic
re-evaluates
a major novelist
by
F. R. LEAVIS
•
In this important new work Dr.
Leavis-the noted English critic and
editor of
Scrutiny-aims
to win firm
recognition for Lawrence's greatness,
particularly for the nature of his
achievement as novelist.
"It
is," Dr.
Leavis says, "as one of the major nov–
elists of the English tradition that he
will above all live. ... His genius is
distinctly that of the novelist, and as
such he is as remarkable a technical
innovator as there ever has been."
He shows, further, that Lawrence
remains a great writer for our own
phase of civilization and that the
quc;stions and stresses that preoccu–
pied him have the most urgent rele–
vance today.
The Times
(London)
said of D. H. LAWRENCE: NOV–
ELIST-"Dr. Leavis has never writ–
ten a better book than this, and
readers who have been told that his
style is awkward and forbidding
will be surprised at how much they
come to relish the anxious precisions
and the dry wit of his very mdividual
prose."
400
pages.
$4.75 at most bookstores
ALFRED A. KNOPF,
Publisher
