The Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence: Poetry of the Eternal Present
There was never any more inception than there is now,...And will never be any more perfection than there is now (Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”)In his Introduction to the American Edition of New Poems (1920), D.H. Lawrence advocates a new kind of poetry: the poetry of the “immediate present.” In th...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Études Lawrenciennes
2017
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | There was never any more inception than there is now,...And will never be any more perfection than there is now (Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”)In his Introduction to the American Edition of New Poems (1920), D.H. Lawrence advocates a new kind of poetry: the poetry of the “immediate present.” In the immediate present, he says, there is neither perfection nor consummation. Everything is in a state of flux. According to Lawrence, life is “ever-present,” it knows no “plasmic finality.” A rose i... |
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