Keeping his flag flying: censorship and Lawrence's poetry

Title: Keeping his flag flying: censorship and Lawrence's poetry
Creator: Pollnitz, Christopher
Relation: Windows to the Sun: D. H. Lawrence's "Thought-Adventures" p. 165-186
Relation: http://www.fdupress.org/book_descriptions/0838641972.html
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2009
Description: In the quotation adapted for the title, writing to a publisher who wanted to change his poetry, Lawrence likens his capacity to attract controversy to a self-identifying "flag" (1993b, 249) - a banner that made him recognizable to a minority public and to himself, a standard which became inseparable from his sense of mission as a writer. The later Lawrence set out to assault his readers' and even his own sensibilities; he rode into battle under a banner of disturbing class proprieties and offending standards of acceptability. In this respect, he repeatedly crossed frontiers, an image I address later in this essay. I am not primarily concerned with cenqorship as a constitutional or human rights issue, or with the legal history of censorship. My limited perspective comes from editing Lawrence's Poems for the Cambridge University Press edition of his works.
Subject: D. H. Lawrence; poetry; standards of acceptability; censorship
Identifier: uon:8641
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918535
Identifier: ISBN:9780838641972

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