D. H. Lawrence: Novelist

📒 Now that Lawrence's reputation has triumphantly survived every attack upon it, an objective and critical appraisal of his achievement comes as a relief. And certainly nobody was better qualified to undertake a major study than Dr F. R. Leavis, who, in The Great Tradition, has firmly placed Lawrence in the line of Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, and Conrad, and who has consistently stressed the Laurentian ideals of the full life and the creative force of great literature. Indeed he regards Lawrence as still the great writer of our own phase of civilization'.