- Title
- Keeping his flag flying: censorship and Lawrence's poetry
- Creator
- Pollnitz, Christopher
- Relation
- Windows to the Sun: D. H. Lawrence's "Thought-Adventures" p. 165-186
- Relation
- http://www.fdupress.org/book_descriptions/0838641972.html
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- In the quotation adapted for the title, writing to a publisher who wanted to change his poetry, Lawrence likens his capacity to attract controversy to a self-identifying "flag" (1993b, 249) - a banner that made him recognizable to a minority public and to himself, a standard which became inseparable from his sense of mission as a writer. The later Lawrence set out to assault his readers' and even his own sensibilities; he rode into battle under a banner of disturbing class proprieties and offending standards of acceptability. In this respect, he repeatedly crossed frontiers, an image I address later in this essay. I am not primarily concerned with cenqorship as a constitutional or human rights issue, or with the legal history of censorship. My limited perspective comes from editing Lawrence's Poems for the Cambridge University Press edition of his works.
- Subject
- D. H. Lawrence; poetry; standards of acceptability; censorship
- Identifier
- uon:8641
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918535
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780838641972
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