It is hard to realize that when Lawrence died of tuberculosis, he was only forty-five. From 1911, when his first novel appeared, to his death in 1930, no year passed without the appearance of at least one book. In 1930 there were six, and his posthumous works total another dozen or so. 36 This frail, thin, bearded man—novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, painter, and prophet—had a central fire of energy burning inside him. He stands out as one of the most alive human beings of his time. Lawrence was born of a Nottinghamshire coal miner and a woman greatly superior to her husband in education and sensitivity. 37 Lawrence excelled at school and for a few years was a schoolmaster. In 1912 he eloped with Frieda von Richthofen Weekley, a member of a patrician German family, and in 1914 married her. The latter part of his life was one of almost continuous wandering. 38 We must understand that Lawrence was an absolute revolutionary. His rejections were complete. 39 He felt that it had devitalized us, dried up the spontaneous springs of our emotions, fragmented us, and alienated us from that life of the soil, flowers, weather, animals, to which Lawrence was preternaturally sensitive. He hated science, conventional Christianity, the worship of reason, progress, the interfering state, planned “respectable” living, and the idolization of money and the machine. 40 Aldous Huxley, who knew him well, described him as “a being, somehow, of another order.”
A. He made war against the entire industrial culture of his and our time. B. His early life, dominated by his mother’s excessive love and his excessive dependence on it, is portrayed quite frankly in the first part of Sons and Lovers. C. It is easy to understand therefore why he was forced to live, though bravely and even joyfully, a life of poverty, struggle, and defiance. D. While producing so prodigiously, Lawrence was traveling widely, meeting and influencing large numbers of people, working at various hobbies, and engaging in the unhappy controversies caused by his uncompromising ideas. E. In exotic primitives and undeveloped countries he sought the equivalent in fact of the life-feeling that blazes in his fiction. 【題組】40.
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