[lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

[Russell Grinker]

When I lived in Nottingham in 1984 during the British miners' strike, I was
amazed to find that there was still a fairly widespread hatred for Lawrence
in the mining communities from which he came and about which he wrote.
People felt he had insultingly portrayed them as ignorant and verging on the
sub-human. Despite Notts miners' reputation as the strike breakers in the
famous '84-5 strike, during the Second World War they were the most radical
workers in Britain, striking against war production and strongly influenced
by Marxists to the left of the CPGB. The official Communist Party was
discredited by its 'sergeant major' role in driving war production in the
pits, where miners had previously been used to going to work only when they
felt like it, as well as to a free supply of beer under an arrangement known
as "swilling".

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Sent: 08 July 2007 02:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

There's very little overt politics in Lawrence's work, and you can certainly
call him a fierce critic of industrialism, in the tradition of Blake.  His
solutions and interests, in the literature at least, are mostly on the
personal and sexual level, not the social.  I tend to give artists a break
on politics; artists and social thinkers are almost opposites, by
temperament.  That doesnt include artists, like Martin Amis, who think their
fame as artists entitles them to be commentators on history.

joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:  Chris Doss wrote:


>DH Lawrence was a radical rightist?
>
>I never liked him anyway. :)
>
His animal poems are pretty good.

Joanna

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