[lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Mon Jul 9 08:14:26 PDT 2007


Lawrence's KANGAROO is an expose of the fascist mentality and organizing strategy in Australia. http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41k/ He and Frieda hi-tailed it out of Sydney on a steamer bound for San Francisco right after he wrote it.

Mike B) ***********************

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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