Dying horribly of tuberculosis before his forty-fifth birthday, D.H. Lawrence bequeathed us some of the finest poetry and prose in English. Repeatedly misunderstood, attacked and banned, he was a religious writer, who sought to heal the schisms between men and women, within our psyches and between the natural world and us. During his lifetime, Lawrence was closely linked in the public imagination to religion: he called himself a "Priest of Love."
The essays in Windows to the Sun focus on the theme of Lawrence as "Thought-Adventurer" - who transports his readers to "new perceptions of reality." The editors, Earl Ingersoll and Virginia Hyde, see his writings as "transgressive innovation" by "one who continually disabuses society of the false world views it creates for itself." Ingersoll and Hyde have assembled a highly stimulating, thought-provoking collection, with a refreshingly different focus, which will be of great interest to all Lawrence scholars. The emphasis is on Lawrence's less popular works and connections that would be anything but self-evident to readers.
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