The novels of D.H. Lawrence brought him fame, and his verse influenced English poetry. His poems are relatively lesser known. However, they were strikingly original and anticipated the after effects of World War II.
D.H. Lawrence was born on September 11th, 1885, in England. At the age of eighteen, D.H. Lawrence entered the University College in Nottingham.
He found time to write poems while working on his first novel. His poems tended to be on the shorter side. Lawrence wrote around 800 poems in his lifetime.
‘Dreams old and Nascent’ were two of his early published poems. These poems were printed in the English Review, a journal.
Lawrence became a full time writer following the publication of his debut novel, ‘The White Peacock’. His novels like ‘The Rainbow’ were controversial.
Lawrence travelled frequently after World War I, and wrote travelogues. D. H. Lawrence suffered from tuberculosis. In his last months, he wrote numerous poems, reviews, and essays. He passed away on 2nd March 1930 in France.
In ‘Nettles’, his final work, Lawrence attacked the morality prevalent in England in that day and age. A nettle was published 11 days after his death.