[lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

[Mike Ballard]

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)
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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

An injury to one is an injury to all
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