Burning Man, page 49
52 ‘a bloody bore’: Barry Smith, Peter Warlock: The Life of Philip Heseltine (Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 92
53 ‘detestably small-eyed and mean’: Letters, 5 January 1916
54 ‘terrifying rocks’: Letters, 1 February 1916
55 ‘she would finish a page’: Carolyn Heilbrun, The Garnett Family (Macmillan, 1961), p. 164
56 ‘Lawrence at his very worst’: Paul Delany, D. H. Lawrence’s Nightmare: The Writer and his Circle in the Years of the Great War (Basic Books, 1978), p. 198
57 ‘preach this doctrine of hate’: D. H. Lawrence’s Nightmare, p. 198
58 ‘How the winds’: Frieda Lawrence, ‘Not I, But the Wind…’ (Viking, 1934), p. 84
59 ‘the ancient spirits’: ‘Not I, But the Wind…’, p. 88
60 ‘Nowhere … can it be so black … he felt them come’: Kangaroo, p. 226
61 ‘the most horrible noises’: A Mere Interlude: Some Literary Visitors in Lyonnesse, ed. with an introduction by Melissa Hardie (The Patten Press, 1992)
62 ‘spread out like a convex’: D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (Duckworth, 1913), p. 60
63 ‘Go to Walker St’: Letters, 3 December 1926
64 ‘We must all rise’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Return to Bestwood’, in The Bad Side of Books, p. 294
65 ‘When I was a boy’: Sons and Lovers, p. 321
66 ‘The Bottoms succeeded to Hell Row’: Sons and Lovers, p. 1
67 ‘What was there in the mines’: Letters, 31 August 1925
68 ‘curious, dark intimacy of the mine’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Nottingham and the Mining Countryside’, in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, ed. Edward McDonald (hereafter Phoenix I) (Viking, 1964), pp. 135–6
69 ‘what splendid men’: George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin, 2001), p. 21
70 ‘had that little, troublesome…’: G. H. Neville, A Memoir of D. H. Lawrence: The Betrayal, ed. Carl Baron (Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 40
71 ‘David is the name of a great man’: Helen Corke, D. H. Lawrence: The Croydon Years (University of Texas Press, 1965), p. 119
72 ‘Marriage is the great puzzle’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘On Being a Man’, in Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays, ed. Michael Herbert (Cambridge University Press, 1988), p. 216
73 ‘what the woman feels’: Letters, 5 June 1914
74 ‘a great error’: ‘The Collected Letters of Jessie Chambers’, ed. George J. Zytark, The D. H. Lawrence Review, vol. 12, no. 1/2 (Spring and Summer 1979), p. 59
75 ‘banter and laughter … swallow my food’: May Holbrook, ‘Some Memories of D. H. Lawrence’, in A Personal Record, pp. 234–5
76 ‘would gather the children in a row’: D. H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography, ed. Edward H. Nehls (3 vols, University of Wisconsin Press, 1959), vol. 2, p. 126
77 ‘something unusual might happen’: A Personal Record, pp. 35-6
78 ‘reverence’: A Personal Record, p. 92
79 ‘A man comes home … about me’: D. H. Lawrence, A Collier’s Friday Night, in The Complete Plays of D. H. Lawrence (William Heinemann, 1965), pp. 482–500
80 ‘anvil on which’: A Personal Record, p. 152
81 ‘dark rosy face’: A Personal Record, p. xxvii
82 ‘intense and introspective’: A Personal Record, p. 130
83 ‘Whatever I forget’: Letters, 14 November 1928
84 ‘were filthier than anybody’: The Betrayal, p. 90
85 ‘The doctor says’: A Composite Biography, vol. 3, p. 574
86 ‘selects’ her sons ‘as lovers’: Letters, 14 November 1912
87 ‘three years’ savage teaching’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Myself Revealed’, in Late Essays and Articles, ed. James T. Boulton (Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 178
88 ‘I am not really afraid’: Letters, 15 September 1913
89 ‘in discussing tuberculosis’: Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family and Editors (Shocken Books, 1977), 7 April 1924
90 ‘dips and rises’: Aldous Huxley et al., A Conversation on D. H. Lawrence (UCLA Library, 1974), p. 39
91 ‘those three days in the tomb’: Mabel Dodge Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos (Alfred A. Knopf, 1935), p. 326
92 ‘Any excess in the sympathetic mode’: D. H. Lawrence, Psychoanalysis of the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious (Dover Publications, 2005), p. 97
93 ‘rages of trouble’: Letters, 15 September 1913
94 ‘The root of all my sickness’: Letters, 26 November 1929
95 ‘Nothing will stop me’: John Worthen, D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years: 1885–1912, vol. 1 of The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence (Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 109
96 ‘Ah, you Haggites see the best of me’: A Personal Record, p. 134
97 ‘holiday atmosphere’: A Personal Record, p. 29
98 ‘a quality of lightness’: A Personal Record, p. 47
99 ‘Work goes like fun’: A Personal Record, p. 31
100 ‘Father says one ought’: A Personal Record, p. 30
101 ‘wife was a poor girl’: A Personal Record, p. 63
102 ‘a sort of brother’: Letters, 17 December 1912
103 ‘over and over again’: A Personal Record, p. 99
104 ‘was one of his great books’: A Personal Record, p. 122
105 ‘woven deep’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Hymns in a Man’s Life’, in Late Essays and Articles
106 ‘the aboundingly spontaneous Shelley’: Francis Thompson, Shelley (Burns & Oates, 1914), p. 23
107 ‘the outstanding event of the week’: A Personal Record, pp. 93–4
108 ‘nineteen or so’: ‘The Collected Letters of Jessie Chambers’, p. 59
109 ‘became self-conscious’: A Personal Record, p. 125
110 ‘as a husband should love his wife’: A Personal Record, p. 66
111 ‘I was conscious of a fierce pain’: A Personal Record, pp. 66–7
112 ‘I have a second consciousness’: Letters, 11 May 1910
113 ‘not a glimmering’: Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, p. 222
114 ‘the whole question’: A Personal Record, p. 153
115 ‘his elbows resting on the table’: The Betrayal, p. 82
116 ‘wonderfully young’: Sons and Lovers, p. 198
117 ‘Bertie’: A Personal Record, p. 56
118 ‘I can think of no being in the world’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Study of Thomas Hardy’, in Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, ed. Bruce Steele (Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 71
119 ‘If you wanted a woman’: The Betrayal, p. 84
120 ‘favourite Prof.’: A Personal Record, p. 76
121 ‘never really had a father’: A Personal Record, p. 88
122 ‘a genius’: A Composite Biography, vol. 1, p. 162
123 ‘the year when my eyes’: Ford Madox Ford, Mightier than the Sword: Memories and Criticisms (Allen & Unwin, 1938), p. 98
124 ‘That’s my label’: Frieda Lawrence, foreword to D. H. Lawrence, The First Lady Chatterley (Penguin, 1994), p. 14
125 ‘leaning against the wall’: Mightier than the Sword, p. 106
126 ‘I have never met any young man of his age’: Mightier than the Sword, p. 113
127 ‘And though she loved me so much’: ‘The Bad Side of Books’, pp. 207–8
128 ‘I did not find it hard’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Myself Revealed’, in The Bad Side of Books, p. 387
129 ‘It doesn’t matter who’: A Personal Record, p. 177
130 ‘refused to see that a man is male’: Letters, 28 January 1910
131 ‘Why do we slur’: ‘Study of Thomas Hardy’, p. 185
132 ‘second me’: Letters, 27 December 1910
133 ‘I must not confuse’: Corke, The Croydon Years, p. 10
134 ‘Now for the beginning of Hell!’: D. H. Lawrence, The Trespasser (Duckworth, 1912), p. 196
135 ‘he performed his purpose … maiming her’: The Trespasser, pp. 250–66
136 ‘eternally suspended’: The Trespasser, p. 271
137 ‘a work of fiction’: Letters, 1 February 1912
138 ‘I have always believed’: Letters, March 1910
139 ‘Trespassing’: Letters, 15 April 1908
140 ‘in a strangled voice’: A Personal Record, p. 184
141 ‘tired’, ‘second hand’: A Personal Record, p. 190
142 ‘As the sheets of manuscript’: A Personal Record, p. 201
143 ‘Of course it isn’t the truth’: A Personal Record, p. 204
144 ‘devotion to his genius’: A Personal Record, p. 201
145 ‘Not yet, please!… actual spirit of the time’: D. H. Lawrence, Paul Morel, ed. Helen Baron (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. xlvii
146 ‘What was it that Keats said’: ‘The Collected Letters of Jessie Chambers’, p. 59
147 ‘A Man’s life’: The Letters of John Keats, vol. 2: 1819–1821, ed. Hyder Edward Rollins (Cambridge University Press, 1958), p. 67
INFERNO: PART TWO
1 ‘One has to be a blind mole’: Osip Mandelstam, Conversation about Dante, trans. Clarence Brown and Robert Hughes (Notting Hill Editions, 2011), p. 114
2 ‘that piece of supreme art’: Letters, 2 March 1915
3 ‘the supreme old novels’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Why the Novel Matters’, in The Bad Side of Books, p. 256
4 ‘I love Dante’: Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 226
5 ‘an epic poem’: Ezra Pound, Money Pamphlets by £ (Peter Russell, 1950), p. 5
6 ‘most bloodthirsty and exciting’: Harold Acton, Nancy Mitford: A Memoir (Gibson Square Books/Hamish Hamilton, 1975), p. 45
7 ‘Dante and Shakespeare’: T. S. Eliot, ‘Dante’, in The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition: Literature, Politics, Belief, 1927–1929, ed. Frances Dickey, Jennifer Formichelli and Ronald Schuchard (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), p. 700
8 ‘establish a relationship’: T. S. Eliot, ‘What Dante Means to Me’, in T. S. Eliot, To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965), p. 128
9 ‘flow[ing] through the rigid grey streets’: Letters, 14 May 1915
10 ‘the poet of liberty’: Thomas Medwin, Conversations of Lord Byron (Princeton University Press, 1966), p. 160
11 ‘discordant’: Leigh Hunt, ‘Mr Carlyle’s Lectures’, The Examiner, 20 May 1838, p. 310
12 ‘the massive quality of Milton’: C. S. Lewis, ‘Shelley, Dryden and Mr Eliot’, Selected Literary Essays (Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 204
13 ‘who could even’: Eliot, ‘Dante’, p. 723
14 ‘one genuine impulse of the affections’: Leigh Hunt, preface to The Story of Rimini: A Poem (John Murray, 1816), p. viii
15 ‘case fell a good deal short of ours’: Lord Byron, Selected Letters and Journals, ed. Leslie Marchand (Belknap Press, 1982), p. 198
16 ‘the most delightful enjoyments’: The Letters of John Keats, vol. 2, p. 91
17 ‘We’ll all be happy together’: Letters, 7 January 1916
18 ‘Today I can’t see a yard’: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, ed. Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (2 vols, Clarendon Press, 1984–7), vol. 1, p. 261
19 ‘Pecksniffian … one vile man’: Sydney Janet Kaplan, Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), p. 1
20 ‘a bundle of antennae’: London Magazine, vol. 3 (1956), p. 32
21 ‘the kind of wriggling self-abuse’: Circulating Genius, p. 13
22 ‘not warm, ardent, eager’: D. H. Lawrence’s Nightmare, p. 241
23 ‘simply raves, roars’: Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. 1, p. 261
24 ‘A chimney of his house’: Kangaroo, p. 227
25 ‘how I wished’: D. H. Lawrence’s Nightmare, p. 38
26 ‘perceptibly over-eager’: introduction to Letters, vol. 2, p. 4
27 ‘some sort of unwholesome relationship’: Triumph to Exile, p. 320
28 ‘Lawrence is at present’: Triumph to Exile, p. 321
29 ‘jealous and sad’: Circulating Genius, p. 65
30 ‘exquisite’: D. H. Lawrence’s Nightmare, p. 223
31 ‘The heights were always wuthering’: Circulating Genius, p. 69
32 ‘with invisible arrows of death’: D. H. Lawrence’s Nightmare, p. 248
33 ‘insect-like stupidity’: Letters, 5 May 1916
34 ‘immense German Christmas pudding’: Triumph to Exile, p. 323
35 ‘the black walls of the war’: Kangaroo, p. 257
36 ‘A real panic comes over me’: Cecil Gray, Musical Chairs; Or, Between Two Stools (The Hogarth Press, 1948), p. 300
37 ‘the same hour’: M. L. Skinner, The Fifth Sparrow: An Autobiography (Sydney University Press, 1972), pp. 115–16
38 ‘Frieda and I do not even speak’: Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. 1, p. 263
39 ‘incurably and incredibly stupid’: Aldous Huxley: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom (Infobase, 2010), p. 117
40 ‘a swamp’: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. Diana Trilling (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958), p. xxi
41 ‘It hurts me very much’: Letters, 22 February 1915
42 ‘a fool and a criminal’: The Letters of Aldous Huxley, ed. Grover Cleveland Smith (Chatto & Windus, 1969), p. 314
43 ‘You can put anything you like’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Novel’, in The Bad Side of Books, p. 237
44 ‘In her mindlessness’: introduction to The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, p. xxii
45 ‘Frieda wasn’t a person’: Rosie Jackson, Frieda Lawrence, (HarperCollins, 1994), p. 33
46 ‘It was evident’: Mr Noon, p. 128
47 ‘It took a German like Frieda’: introduction to The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, p. xxiv
48 ‘Your most vital necessity in this life’: Letters, 7 July 1914
49 ‘I’m not coming to you now for rest’: Letters, 16 May 1912
50 ‘You will find her and me’: Letters, 3 April 1914
51 ‘Titanic iceberg’: Frieda Lawrence: The Memoirs and Correspondence, ed. E. W. Tedlock (Alfred A. Knopf, 1964), p. 166
52 ‘a leaf blown in the wind’: A Personal Record, p. 184
53 ‘a cat that looks round’: Mr Noon, p. 123
54 ‘French windows open’: ‘Not I, But the Wind…’, p. 4
55 ‘I had just met’: ‘Not I, But the Wind…’, pp. 3–4
56 ‘So long as one talked’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 49
57 ‘soft, non-intellectual’: Sons and Lovers, p. 9
58 ‘In the tension of opposites’: D. H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers (Cresset Press, 1930), p. 105
59 ‘Well, I think you’re lucky’: Mr Noon, pp. 124, 123
60 ‘You are quite unaware of your husband’: Michael Squires and Lynn K. Talbot, Living at the Edge: A Biography of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), p. 53
61 ‘You are the most wonderful woman in all England’: ‘Not I, But the Wind…’, p. 4
62 ‘She is ripping’: Letters, 17 April 1912
63 ‘the catastrophic naivety’: introduction to The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, p. xxi
