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Further reading

Works are listed chronologically within each category and dates given are first publication dates. Alternative titles are given in brackets.

The bibliography is intended as an introduction to Lawrence and includes only the major works. Detailed information on the composition and publication of all Lawrence's works can be obtained from the following sources:

  • Poplawski, P. The works of D H Lawrence: a chronological checklist. Nottingham, D H Lawrence Society, 1995.
  • Preston, P. A D H Lawrence chronology. London, Macmillan, 1994.
  • Roberts, W. and Poplawski, P. A bibliography of D H Lawrence. 3rd ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Sagar, K. D H Lawrence: a calendar of his works. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1979.

 

Fiction

  • The white peacock (1911)
  • The trespasser (1912)
  • Sons and lovers (1913)
  • The rainbow (1915)
  • Women in love (1920)
  • The lost girl (1920)
  • Aaron's rod (1922)
  • Kangaroo (1923)
  • The boy in the bush (1924)
  • St Mawr (1925)
  • The plumed serpent (Quetzalcoatl) (1926)
  • Lady Chatterley's lover (1928)
  • The escaped cock (The man who died) (1928/1929)
  • The virgin and the gipsy (1930)
  • Mr Noon part I and part II (1984)

 

Poetry

  • Love poems and others (1913)
  • Amores (1916)
  • Look! We have come through! (1917)
  • New poems (1918)
  • Bay: a book of poems (1919)
  • Tortoises (1921)
  • Birds, beasts and flowers (1923)
  • The collected poems of D H Lawrence (1928)
  • Pansies (1929)
  • Nettles (1930)
  • Last poems (1932)
  • Fire and other poems (1940)
  • The complete poems of D H Lawrence (1964)

 

Short Stories

  • The Prussian officer and other stories (1914)
  • England, my England and other stories (1922)
  • The ladybird, the fox, the captain's doll (1923)
  • Sun (1926)
  • Glad ghosts (1926
  • The woman who rode away and other stories (1928)
  • Rawdon's roof (1929)
  • Love among the haystacks and other pieces (1930)

 

Plays

  • The widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1914)
  • Touch and go (1920)
  • David (1926)
  • The fight for Barbara (1933)
  • A collier's Friday night (1934)
  • The married man (1940)
  • The merry-go-round (1941)
  • The complete plays of D H Lawrence (1965)

 

Travel writings

  • Twilight in Italy (1916)
  • Sea and Sardinia (1921)
  • Mornings in Mexico (1927)
  • Etruscan Places (1932)

 

Essays and Other Works

  • Movements in European history (1921)
  • Psychoanalysis and the unconscious (1921)
  • Fantasia of the unconscious (1922)
  • Studies in classic American literature (1923)
  • Reflections on the death of a porcupine and other essays (1925)
  • Pornography and obscenity (1929)
  • Assorted articles (1930)
  • Apocalypse (1931)
  • Phoenix: the posthumous papers of D H Lawrence (1936)
  • Phoenix II: uncollected, unpublished and other prose works by D H Lawrence (1968)

 

Works translated by Lawrence

  • Shestov, L. All things are possible (1920)
  • Bunin, I.A. The gentleman from San Francisco (1922)
  • Verga, G. Maestro-Don Gesualdo (1923)
  • Verga, G. Little novels of Sicily (1925)
  • Verga, G. Cavalleria rusticana and other stories (1928)
  • Grazzini, A.F. The story of Doctor Manente (1929)

Note also The Cambridge edition of the letters and works of D H Lawrence.
This series comprises new editions of the individual works and aims to provide texts which reflect as closely as possible Lawrence's intentions. Each volume provides an introduction, detailing the composition and publication history of the work, together with chronology and commentaries.

 

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