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

NOTES

Abbreviations of Principal Editions Used

Letters Vols. 1–7 refers to the Cambridge University Press edition of Lawrence’s letters, respectively:

Volume 1: September 1901 — May 1913, edited by James T. Boulton, 1979.

Volume 2: June 1913 — October 1916, edited by George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton, 1981.

Volume 3: October 1916 — June 1921, edited by James T. Boulton and Andrew Robertson, 1984.

Volume 4: June 1921 — March 1924, edited by Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton and Elizabeth Mansfield, 1987.

Volume 5: March 1924 — March 1927, edited by James T. Boulton and Lindeth Vasey, 1989.

Volume 6: March 1927 — November 1928, edited by James T. Boulton, Margaret H. Boulton and Gerald M. Lacy, 1991.

Volume 7: November 1928 — February 1930, edited by Keith Sagar and James T. Boulton, 1993.

Thomas Hardy: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, edited by Bruce Steele, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985.

Poems: The Complete Poems, edited by Vivian De Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1977.

Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers, 1936, edited by Edward D. McDonald, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1978.

Phoenix II: Uncollected, Unpublished, and Other Prose Works, edited by Warren Roberts and Harry T. Moore, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1978.

Place of publication for the following is London unless otherwise stated:

p. 12 ‘Where does one. .’ etc: respectively, Letters Vol. 6 p. 617; Vol. 7 p. 80; Vol. 7 p. 105.

p. 19 ‘I don’t care. .’: Letters Vol. 6 p. 609.

p. 19 ‘I don’t like. .’: ibid p. 617.

p. 21 ‘Already I am. .’: Selected Letters, Quartet, 1988 p. 98.

p. 21 ‘I have often. .’: ibid p. 74.

p. 23 ‘Life is more. .’: this starts out as a quotation from ‘Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine’, Phoenix II p. 468.

p. 29 ‘the Italians are. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 534.

p. 34 ‘the intoxication of. .’: The Gay Science, Vintage, New York, 1974 p. 32.

p. 34 ‘existence was one. .’: Introduction to The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Heinemann, 1932 p. xxx.

p. 34 ‘the long convalescence. .’: Selected Letters p. 187.

p. 35 ‘Michelet wrote nothing. .’: Michelet, Hill & Wang, New York, 1987 p. 87.

p. 35 Brodsky: ‘To Please a Shadow’, in Less Than One, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1987 p. 373.

p. 36 ‘I hate photographs. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 189.

p. 38 ‘I’ve been seedy. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 224.

p. 38 ‘I send a. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 327.

p. 38 ‘clean-shaven, bright young. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 620.

p. 38 Yourcenar: Memoirs of Hadrian, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1959 p. 16.

p. 39 ‘I had to. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 646.

p. 39 ‘Jo Davidson came. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 653.

p. 39 ‘What do I. .’: Phoenix p. 232.

p. 79 ‘an accident in. .’: ‘Nottingham and the Mining Countryside’, Phoenix p. 133.

p. 79 ‘the condemning of. .’: ibid p. 138.

p. 80 ‘but a blind. .’: ibid.

pp. 81 ‘If you’re in. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 592.

p. 83 ‘Pull down my. .’: Phoenix p. 140.

p. 84 ‘he also needs. .’: Selected Essays and Notebooks, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979 p. 282.

p. 84 ‘the human soul. .’: Phoenix p. 138.

p. 86 ‘Whatever I forget. .’: Letters Vol. 6 p. 618.

p. 86 ‘I am not. .’: ibid p. 535.

p. 86 ‘walking through the. .’: op cit p. 148.

p. 87 ‘the great free. .’: ibid p. 70.

p. 90 ‘I feel I. .’: Letters Vol. 6 p. 182.

p. 90 ‘will to write. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 621.

p. 90 ‘that one thing. .’: Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters p. 143.

p. 91 ‘Either happiness or. .’: ibid p. 10.

p. 91 ‘Du mußt dein. .’: from ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell, Vintage International, New York, 1989 p. 6.

p. 91 ‘i.e. find a different. .’: Selected Letters, edited by Anthony Thwaite, Faber, 1992 p. 315.

p. 92 ‘ancient enmity between. .’: Selected Poetry, p. 87.

p. 92 ‘For one human. .’: ibid p. 306.

p. 92 ‘Fidelity to oneself. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 308.

p. 92 ‘I don’t sacrifice. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 75.

p. 92 ‘not the work. .’: Thomas Hardy p. 12.

pp. 92 ‘I don’t think. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 215.

p. 96 ‘in the moment. .’: Walter Benjamin, ‘A Small History of Photography’ in One Way Street, Verso, 1979 p. 245.

p. 97 ‘the tree’s life. .’: ‘Pan in America’, Phoenix p. 25.

p. 97 ‘Thank God I. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 307.

p. 97 ‘It is hard. .’: Selected Letters p. 157.

p. 97 ‘no life without. .’: from ‘Lullaby of Cape Cod’, Part of Speech, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980 p. 113.

p. 97 ‘I feel a. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 301.

p. 98 ‘One can no. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 266.

p. 98 ‘meant nothing to. .’: Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters p. 30.

p. 98 ‘Whisper to the. .’: Selected Poetry p. 255.

p. 99 ‘happy as a. .’: Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters, selected and edited by Ronald De Leeuw, Allen Lane, 1996 p. 361.

p. 99 ‘convinced that every. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 436.

p. 99 ‘Perhaps there remains. .’: The Selected Poetry p. 151.

p. 100 ‘A fine wind. .’: Poems p. 29.

p. 101 ‘You mustn’t look. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 183.

p. 104 ‘The best readings. .’: Real Presences, Faber, 1989 p. 17.

p. 104 ‘syllabus of enacted. .’: ibid p. 20.

p. 105 ‘very thorough in. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 473.

p. 106 ‘the judgment may. .’: Sea and Sardinia, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1944 p. 131.

p. 109 ‘Blair has been. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 641.

p. 112 ‘she lifted her. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 40.

p. 112 ‘Now it is. .’: Poems p. 716.

p. 112 ‘apples on tall. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 455, discussed by Sagar in D. H. Lawrence: Life into Art, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1985 p. 341.

p. 112 ‘it is just. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 692.

p. 113 ‘the apples blown. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 216.

p. 113 ‘seems already a. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 282.

p. 114 ‘Since Lawrence died. .’: quoted by Janet Byrne in A Genius for Living, Bloomsbury, 1995 p. 376.

p. 115 ‘Whoever reads me. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 201.

p. 115 ‘What do I. .’: Phoenix p. 232.

pp. 115 ‘I enjoy looking. .’: quoted by Janet Byrne p. 376.

p. 116 ‘tapping out an. .’: ‘Elegy: D. H. Lawrence’ in The Essential Rebecca West, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1983 p. 392.

p. 116 ‘I feel there. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 304.

p. 116 ‘wearied himself to. .’: Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1950, p. 33.

p. 117 ‘When I drive. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 431.

p. 117 ‘always be a. .’: ibid p. 434

pp. 118 ‘So vivid a. .’: ibid pp. 459–60.

p. 121 ‘not so much. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 235.

pp. 121 ‘The land is. .’: ibid p. 238.

p. 122 ‘Have you noticed. .’: Vol. 2, Penguin, Harmondsworth, p. 508.

p. 122 ‘the one bright. .’: ‘Why the Novel Matters’, Phoenix p. 535.

p. 122 ‘the highest form. .’: ‘The Novel’, Phoenix II p. 416.

p. 122 ‘In our time. .’: op cit p. 383.

p. 123 ‘Their freedom of. .’: Testaments Betrayed, Faber, 1995 p. 160.

p. 123 ‘a new art. .’: The Art of the Novel, Faber, 1988 p. 65.

p. 124 ‘A book which. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 479.

p. 126 ‘One’s native land. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 312.

p. 128 ‘the least reticent. .’: op cit p. 166.

p. 132 ‘This is a. .’: Damn You, England, Faber, 1994 pp. 193–4.

p. 132 ‘living in a. .’: ibid p. 15.

p. 132 ‘the root of. .’: ibid p. 195.

p. 132 ‘Curse you, my. .’: Letters Vol. 1 p. 424.

p. 132 ‘I curse my. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 92.

p. 132 ‘If thine eye. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 414.

p. 134 Volentieri: quoted by Paul Carter in Living in a New Country, Faber, 1992 p. 154.

p. 135 ‘It is the. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 495.

p. 135 ‘We can so. .’: ‘Requiem for a Friend’, The Selected Poetry p. 85.

p. 135 ‘The tragedy of. .’: Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1961 p. 212.

p. 136 ‘from The Rainbow. .’: quoted by Janet Byrne p. 411.

p. 136 ‘sick with fatigue’ etc.: Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1960 pp. 149–51.

p. 137 ‘I looked down. .’: ibid p. 158.

p. 137 ‘the dangerous privilege. .’: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986 p. 8.

p. 138 ‘To know serenity. .’: Engaging Form, Cape, 1988 p. 85.

p. 139 ‘He who returns. .’: ‘Adioses’, Plenos Poderes, Losada, Buenos Aires, 1962 p. 461.

p. 139 ‘I feel I. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 263.

p. 139 ‘grew together as. .’: Cape, 1987 p. 50.

p. 139 ‘Oh Schwiegermutter it. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 238.

p. 140 ‘This place no. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 651.

p. 141 ‘Either you go. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 170.

p. 141 ‘Freedom is a. .’: ibid p. 191.

p. 142 ‘he did nothing. .’: quoted by Rebecca West p. 395.

p. 142 ‘you’ve always done. .’: ‘The Life with a Hole in It’, Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite, Faber, 1988 p. 202.

p. 142 ‘My wife and. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 734.

p. 142 ‘The only history. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 161.

pp. 142 ‘We had almost. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 175.

p. 143 ‘It is my. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 238.

p. 143 ‘Really, why does. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 165.

p. 143 ‘Each one of. .’: Faber, 1987 p. 48.

p. 144 ‘Basically it’s none. .’: Letters on Cézanne, Cape, 1989 p. 8.

p. 144 ‘Naturally I don’t. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 45.

p. 144 ‘I have painted. .’: ibid p. 570.

p. 145 ‘Lawrence was always. .’: quoted by Janet Byrne p. 310.

p. 145 ‘the washing, cooking. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 111.

p. 147 ‘By now, it. .’: ‘Fine Adjustments’, Acrimony, Faber, 1986 p. 77.

p. 148 ‘The photograph. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 208.

p. 150 ‘I owe you. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 505.

p. 150 ‘remind Frieda. .’: ‘Of course Frieda. .’: ibid p. 654 and p. 658.

p. 150 ‘can’t help feeling. .’: Letters Vol. 6 p. 542.

p. 151 ‘I am thoroughly. .’: Sea and Sardinia, p. 28.

p. 151 ‘Does the return. .’: Letters Vol. 4 pp. 375–6.

p. 151 ‘I don’t want. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 519.

p. 152 ‘everybody is hard. .’: The Letters 1857–1880, edited by Francis Steegmuller, Harvard, Cambridge, 1982 p. 156.

p. 153 ‘to absorb himself. .’: op cit p. xxxi.

p. 154 ‘painting and fucking. .’: op cit p. 365.

p. 155 ‘Painting is a. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 619.

p. 156 ‘an even more. .’: op cit p. xxvi.

p. 156 ‘I shall turn. .’: I have departed slightly from Walter Kaufmann’s translation of this line from The Gay Science p. 223.

p. 160 ‘No, I don’t. .’ etc.: Letters Vol. 4 p. 108.

p. 161 ‘I feel my. .’: ibid p. 98.

p. 161 ‘marvellous air, marvellous. .’: ibid p. 239.

p. 161 ‘If all goes. .’: Selected Letters p. 192.

p. 162 ‘the life-exhaustion feeling. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 189.

p. 162 ‘no life of. .’: ibid p. 406.

p. 162 ‘Suddenly that I. .’: ibid p. 168.

p. 163 ‘people who rave. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 489.

p. 163 ‘one of those. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 113.

p. 163 ‘one does nothing. .’: Sea and Sardinia p. 76.

p. 163 ‘of more and. .’: quoted by Sagar p. 354.

p. 164 ‘So Mabel thought. .’: Brenda Maddox, The Married Man, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994 p. 367.

p. 164 Magris: Danube, Collins Harville, 1989 p. 77.

p. 164 ‘a black ribbon. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 621.

p. 164 ‘is just twice. .’: ibid p. 622.

p. 165 ‘exactly like the. .’: ibid p. 636.

p. 165 ‘it got on. .’: ibid p. 637.

p. 165 ‘Never will I. .’: ibid p. 638.

p. 165 ‘Many thanks for. .’: ibid p. 638.

p. 166 ‘But always remember. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 595.

p. 166 ‘More and more. .’: Letters Vol. 4 p. 154.

p. 166 ‘for the first. .’: ibid p. 170.

p. 167 ‘I only know. .’: ibid p. 170.

p. 167 ‘and his rat-hole. .’: ibid p. 234.

p. 167 ‘I am essentially. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 67.

p. 167 ‘My business is. .’: Letters Vol. 6 p. 72.

p. 167 ‘All truth — and. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 519.

p. 168 ‘But I do. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 574.

p. 168 ‘One no longer. .’: op cit p. 355.

p. 168 ‘For my part. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 616.

p. 169 ‘very nice to. .’: Letters Vol. 6. p. 148.

p. 169 ‘that stillness in. .’: Letters Vol. 7 p. 235.

p. 169 ‘sitting in the. .’: ibid p. 211.

p. 169 ‘It is very. .’: ibid p. 510.

p. 17 °Carey: The Intellectuals and the Masses, Faber, 1992, particularly pp. 10–12 and 75–80.

p. 170 ‘struggle inside. .’: Letters Vol. 2 p. 161.

p. 171 ‘never finish making. .’: The Rebel, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1962, p. 67.

p. 171 ‘both their wretchedness. .’: ‘Summer in Algiers’, Selected Essays and Notebooks p. 81.

p. 171 ‘only one thing. .’: ‘Summer in Algiers’, op cit pp. 89–90.

p. 171 ‘slightly intoxicated’: Selected Letters p. 67.

p. 171 ‘If the Greeks. .’: ‘Helen’s Exile’, Selected Essays and Notebooks p. 136.

pp. 171 ‘there is no. .’: ‘Love of Life’, ibid p. 60.

p. 172 ‘in the most. .’: The Gay Science p. 242.

p. 172 ‘the double damnation. .’: Selected Essays and Notebooks p. 19.

p. 172 ‘Never to wish. .’: I have set down Nietzsche’s ideal of amor fati like this because this is exactly how I remember it, even though I have remembered it — from R. J. Hollingdale’s translation — slightly inaccurately: cf Ecce Homo, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979 p. 68.

p. 174 ‘beastly Oaxaca’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 235.

p. 176 ‘Poor Bertie Russell. .’: quoted by Harry T. Moore in The Priest of Love, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1976 p. 516.

p. 177 ‘To be brave. .’: Epilogue to Movements in European History, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981 p. 308.

p. 178 ‘men who give. .’: Into Their Labours, Granta, 1992 p. 329.

p. 184 ‘malaria — with grippe. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 230.

p. 191 ‘very pleasant’ and ‘very beautiful’: Letters Vol. 5, respectively p. 163 and p. 177.

p. 193 ‘Let a man. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 21.

p. 193 ‘a mere wreck. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 230.

p. 193 ‘so foul one. .’: Letters Vol. 3 p. 55.

p. 203 ‘Don’t for heaven’s. .’: Letters Vol. 6 p. 535.

p. 212 ‘it would be. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 585.

p. 220 ‘old nodality’: ‘Taos’, Phoenix, p. 100.

p. 224 ‘I am no. .’: Sea and Sardinia p. 49.

p. 227 ‘Cars of women. .’: quoted by Janet Byrne p. 385.

p. 230 ‘Think of the. .’: The Complete Poems 1927–1979, Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1983 pp. 93–4.

p. 231 ‘What is it. .’: Letters Vol. 5 p. 196. p. 231 ‘Why can’t one. .’ and ‘Why does one. .’: Sea and Sardinia, respectively, p. 1 and p. 3.

p. 232 ‘a prisoner deprived. .’: The Book of Disquiet, Quartet, 1991 p. 125.

p. 234 ‘able to stifle. .’: op cit p. 80.