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THE TRIUMPH AND FAILURE OF D. H. LAWRENCE
D. H. LAWRENCE, THE FAILURE AND THE TRIUMPH OF ART.
By Eliseo Vivas. Northwestern University Press. $4.75.
Having spent his adulthood in comparative isolation,
D. H. Lawrence became after his death a prey to the clumsy dis–
sections of every chance acquaintance. As a result, many of the
critical works concerned with Lawrence have been written by peo–
ple who were either carrying on posthumous romances with L0-
renzo or who felt driven to release their hatred for him. By now,
however, such extreme responses seem dated and irrelevant:
Lawrence needs neither eulogy nor vituperation. By now, we can
perhaps afford the luxury of giving him
qualified
admiration. And
it
is
the particular merit of Eliseo Vivas's book that it does pre–
cisely that. Mr. Vivas is a critic who discusses Lawrence's novels
without malice or enthusiasm; respectful both of the writer and
the reader, he states his ideas with a pleasing diffidence. The great
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