Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

Endnotes

1. What Lawrence intended to sit under, Rilke, in the first of the Duino Elegies, was content merely to glimpse and speculate upon: ‘Perhaps there remains for us some tree on a hillside. .’

2. Lawrence himself said more or less the same thing in Kangaroo. The autobiographical fgure Richard Lovat Somers ‘wearied himself to death struggling with the problem of himself and calling it Australia’.

3. Rilke, too, writes of how he became ‘slightly intoxicated’ with Nietzsche.