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D. H. Lawrence
The first introduction was college. Cursory. The second (more intense) through a left-leaning, used book dealer in Chicago, Paul Romaine, (See CHI TOWN, Northwestern University Press or Ellis Press). Romaine, a mentor of sorts, who introduced me to Henry Miller about the same time and saw to it that as a young writer I read the right things: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER and TROPIC OF CANCER, among other works by both writers. Some quite difficult to find at the time.
The third introduction to Lawrence (life changing…one of those writers you swallow whole, who becomes part of your literary bloodstream) came with my great love affair with the southwest (late 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's)…with Mexico, but even more, New Mexico, where I thought, in the 80's, I was headed for good. So long, Chicago, "…city of the big shoulders," [Sandburg] and GOODBYE WISCONSIN [Glenway Wescott]. Hello mountains, desert, and every writer and artist who had touched down around Santa Fe and Taos.
Circumstances, however, proved otherwise.
This is a period of time that needs more attending to, given the small shelf of Blei's collected works. Which I plan to attend to, if time allows. At least three unfinished manuscripts with Southwestern backgrounds remain buried somewhere in this coop.
Aside from my unsophisticated/unheralded/mostly unknown "Henry Miller-influenced" watercolor paintings, probably the two main pieces of written work reflecting that time and Lawrence's influence rest in a single somewhat acclaimed short story, "The Hour of the Sunshine Now"–the title story of a first collection of short stories published by Story Press in 1978. That and some Southwest references in two novels (ADVENTURES IN AN AMERICAN'S LITERATURE and THE SECOND NOVEL)…and scattered pieces of journalism which appeared in a number of national magazines and newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune which featured, page 1, two major 'travel' essays on Santa Fe. A place which became my obsession, dream, escape, home-away-from-home (thanks two close friends, both of them now gone—literally and figurative speaking). The place I had to go part of the year, each year for almost 30 years.
Lawrence was always waiting there, in that desert-mountain landscape. I connected with him on every visit, sought him out in books, carried him along on my walks, read him on sunny benches in the old plazas of Santa Fe and Taos, in the bar of the La Fonda, cafes, libraries, bookstores, and late at night, often read his poems and stories, nodding off to sleep.
I journeyed to his old haunts in and around Taos. Found his spirit alive and well, in this tiny part of America which so captivated him. One afternoon I discovered a small, extraordinary collection of his paintings owned by a lively old Greek businessman in Taos, who displayed them in his office. You couldn't get any closer to the source than that. I took everything in—the myth and the man. The meaning was in the words he found to explain the life he described in his time. Here it was. Is.
It was all about the sun. About place. About passion. About love. About living a life free of the usual restraints. Any writer (or person) on the threshold of breaking out, needing a shove, or seeking to rise from whatever ashes his life has succumbed to (Lawrence's symbol was the phoenix) could not find a better escape plan or route to a new life than the works of D. H. Lawrence.
He's 'still in the blood,' though I have not given him the thought or credit he deserves in some time now…till I stumbled upon this poem the other night. Norbert Blei
Painting by D.H. Lawrence
We Are Transmitters by D. H. Lawrence
As we live, we are transmitters of life.
And when we fail to transmit life, life fails to flow
through us.
That is part of the mystery of sex, it is a flow onwards,
Sexless people' transmit nothing.
And if, as we work, we can transmit life into our work,
life, still more life, rushes into us to compensate, to be ready
and we ripple with life through the days.
Even if it is a woman making an apple dumpling, or a
man a stool,
if life goes into the pudding, good is the pudding
good is the stool,
content is the woman, with fresh life rippling in to her,
content is the man.
Give, and it shall be given unto you
is still the truth about life.
But giving life is not so easy.
It doesn't mean handing it out to some mean fool, or letting
the living dead eat you up.
It means kindling the life-quality where it was not,
even if it's only in the whiteness of a washed pocket-handkerchief.
Editor's Note:
For those unfamiliar with Lawrence's work, or wishing to re-visit him, I would recommend the Viking edition of: THE PORTABLE D. H. LAWRENCE which contains stories and novellas, poems, travel writing, letters, essays and critical work, excerpts from the novels THE RAINBOW and WOMEN IN LOVE, not to mention an excellent introduction by DianaTrilling.
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885–2 March 1930) was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, sexuality, and human instinct.
Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature, although some feminists object to the attitudes toward women and sexuality found in his works.
The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner, and Lydia, née Beardsall, a former schoolmistress, Lawrence spent his formative years in the coal mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. His birthplace, in Eastwood, 8a Victoria Street, is now a museum. His working class background and the tensions between his parents provided the raw material for a number of his early works. Lawrence would return to this locality, which he was to call "the country of my heart,"as a setting for much of his fiction.
The young Lawrence attended Beauvale Board School (now renamed Greasley Beauvale D.H. Lawrence Infant School in his honour) from 1891 until 1898, becoming the first local pupil to win a County Council scholarship to Nottingham High School in nearby Nottingham. There is a house in the Junior School named after him. He left in 1901, working for three months as a junior clerk at Haywood's surgical appliances factory before a severe bout of pneumonia ended this career. Whilst convalescing he often visited Haggs Farm, the home of the Chambers family and began a friendship with Jessie Chambers. An important aspect of this relationship with Jessie and other adolescent acquaintances was a shared love of books, an interest that lasted throughout Lawrence's life. In the years 1902 to 1906 Lawrence served as a pupil teacher at the British School, Eastwood. He went on to become a full-time student and received a teaching certificate from University College Nottingham in 1908. During these early years he was working on his first poems, some short stories, and a draft of a novel, Laetitia, that was eventually to become The White Peacock. At the end of 1907 he won a short story competition in the Nottingham Guardian, the first time that he had gained any wider recognition for his literary talents.
In the autumn of 1908 the newly qualified Lawrence left his childhood home for London. While teaching in Davidson Road School in Croydon, he continued writing. Some of the early poetry, submitted by Jessie Chambers, came to the attention of Ford Madox Hueffer, editor of the influential The English Review. Hueffer then commissioned the story Odour of Chrysanthemums which, when published in that magazine, encouraged Heinemann, a London publisher, to ask Lawrence for more work. His career as a professional author now began in earnest, although he taught for a further year. Shortly after the final proofs of his first published novel The White Peacock appeared in 1910, Lawrence's mother died. She had been ill with cancer. The young man was devastated and he was to describe the next few months as his "sick year." It is clear that Lawrence had an extremely close relationship with his mother and his grief following her death became a major turning point in his life, just as the death of Mrs. Morel forms a major turning point in his autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers, a work that draws upon much of the writer's provincial upbringing.
In 1911 Lawrence was introduced to Edward Garnett, a publisher's reader, who acted as a mentor, provided further encouragement, and became a valued friend. Throughout these months the young author revised Paul Morel, the first sketch of what was to become Sons and Lovers. In addition, a teaching colleague, Helen Corke, gave him access to her intimate diaries about an unhappy love affair, which formed the basis of The Trespasser, his second novel. In November 1911, pneumonia struck once again. After recovering his health Lawrence decided to abandon teaching in order to become a full time author. He also broke off an engagement to Louie Burrows, an old friend from his days in Nottingham and Eastwood.
In March 1912 the author met Frieda Weekley (nee von Richthofen), with whom he was to share the rest of his life. She was six years older than her new lover, married and with three young children. She was then married to Lawrence's former modern languages professor from Nottingham University, Ernest Weekley. She eloped with Lawrence to her parents' home in Metz, a garrison town in Germany near the disputed border with France. Their stay here included Lawrence's first brush with militarism, when he was arrested and accused of being a British spy, before being released following an intervention from Weekley's father. After this encounter Lawrence left for a small hamlet to the south of Munich, where he was joined by Weekley for their "honeymoon," later memorialised in the series of love poems entitled Look! We Have Come Through (1917).
Painting by D.H. Lawrence
From Germany they walked southwards across the Alps to Italy, a journey that was recorded in the first of his travel books, a collection of linked essays entitled Twilight in Italy and the unfinished novel, Mr Noon. During his stay in Italy, Lawrence completed the final version of Sons and Lovers that, when published in 1913, was acknowledged to represent a vivid portrait of the realities of working class provincial life. The couple returned to England in 1913 for a short visit. Lawrence now encountered and befriended critic John Middleton Murry and New Zealand-born short story writer Katherine Mansfield. Lawrence and Weekley soon went back to Italy, staying in a cottage in Fiascherino on the Gulf of Spezia. Here he started writing the first draft of a work of fiction that was to be transformed into two of his better-known novels, The Rainbow and Women in Love. Eventually, Weekley obtained her divorce. The couple returned to England at the outbreak of World War I and were married on July 13, 1914.
Weekley's German parentage and Lawrence's open contempt for militarism meant that they were viewed with suspicion in wartime England and lived in near destitution. The Rainbow (1915) was suppressed after an investigation into its alleged obscenity in 1915. Later, they were even accused of spying and signalling to German submarines off of the coast of Cornwall where they lived at Zennor. During this period he finished a sequel to The Rainbow, entitled Women in Love. In it Lawrence explores the destructive features of contemporary civilization through the evolving relationships of four major characters as they reflect upon the value of the arts, politics, economics, sexual experience, friendship and marriage. This book is a bleak, bitter vision of humanity and proved impossible to publish in wartime conditions. It is now widely recognised as an English novel of great dramatic force and intellectual subtlety.
In late 1917, after constant harassment by the military authorities, Lawrence was forced to leave Cornwall at three days' notice under the terms of the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA). This persecution was later described in an autobiographical chapter of his Australian novel Kangaroo, published in 1923. He spent some months in early 1918 in the small, rural village of Hermitage near Newbury, Berkshire. He then lived for just under a year (mid-1918 to early 1919) at Mountain Cottage, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire, where he wrote one of his most poetic short stories, The Wintry Peacock. Until 1919 he was compelled by poverty to shift from address to address and barely survived a severe attack of influenza.
After the traumatic experience of the war years, Lawrence began what he termed his 'savage pilgrimage', a time of voluntary exile. He escaped from England at the earliest practical opportunity, to return only twice for brief visits, and with his wife spent the remainder of his life travelling. This wanderlust took him to Australia, Italy, Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka), North America, Mexico and southern France.
Lawrence abandoned England in November 1919 and headed south; first to the Abruzzi district in central Italy and then onwards to Capri and the Fontana Vecchia in Taormina, Sicily. From Sicily he made brief excursions to Sardinia, Monte Cassino, Malta, Northern Italy, Austria and Southern Germany. Many of these places appeared in his writings. New novels included The Lost Girl (for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction), Aaron's Rod and the fragment entitled Mr Noon (the first part of which was published in the Phoenix anthology of his works, and the entirety in 1984). He experimented with shorter novels or novellas, such as The Captain's Doll, The Fox and The Ladybird. In addition, some of his short stories were issued in the collection England, My England and Other Stories. During these years he produced a number of poems about the natural world in Birds, Beasts and Flowers. Lawrence is widely recognized as one of the finest travel writers in the English language. Sea and Sardinia, a book that describes a brief journey from Taormina undertaken in January 1921, is a recreation of the life of the inhabitants of this part of the Mediterranean. Less well known is the brilliant memoir of Maurice Magnus, in which Lawrence recalls his visit to the monastery of Monte Cassino. Other non-fiction books include two studies of Freudian psychoanalysis and Movements in European History, a school textbook that was published under a pseudonym, a reflection of his blighted reputation in England.
In late February 1922 the Lawrences left Europe behind with the intention of migrating to the United States. They sailed in an easterly direction, first to Ceylon and then on to Australia. A short residence in Darlington, Western Australia, which included an encounter with local writer Mollie Skinner, was followed by a brief stop in the small coastal town of Thirroul, New South Wales, during which Lawrence completed Kangaroo, a novel about local fringe politics that also revealed a lot about his wartime experiences in Cornwall.
The Lawrences finally arrived in the U.S. in September 1922. Here they encountered Mabel Dodge Luhan, a prominent socialite, and considered establishing a utopian community on what was then known as the 160-acre (0.65 km²) Kiowa Ranch near Taos, New Mexico. They acquired the property, now called the D. H. Lawrence Ranch, in 1924 in exchange for the manuscript of Sons and Lovers. He stayed in New Mexico for two years, with extended visits to Lake Chapala and Oaxaca in Mexico.
While in the U.S., Lawrence rewrote and published Studies in Classic American Literature, a set of critical essays begun in 1917, and later described by Edmund Wilson as "one of the few first-rate books that have ever been written on the subject." These interpretations, with their insights into symbolism, New England Transcendentalism and the puritan sensibility, were a significant factor in the revival of the reputation of Herman Melville during the early 1920s. In addition, Lawrence completed a number of new fictional works, including The Boy in the Bush, The Plumed Serpent, St Mawr, The Woman who Rode Away, The Princess and assorted short stories. He also found time to produce some more travel writing, such as the collection of linked excursions that became Mornings in Mexico.
A brief voyage to England at the end of 1923 was a failure and he soon returned to Taos, convinced that his life as an author now lay in America. However, in March 1925 he suffered a near fatal attack of malaria and tuberculosis whilst on a third visit to Mexico. Although he eventually recovered, the diagnosis of his condition obliged him to return once again to Europe. He was dangerously ill and poor health limited his ability to travel for the remainder of his life.
The Lawrences made their home in a villa in Northern Italy, living near to Florence while he wrote The Virgin and the Gipsy and the various versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). The latter book, his last major novel, was initially published in private editions in Florence and Paris and reinforced his notoriety. Lawrence responded robustly to those who claimed to be offended, penning a large number of satirical poems, published under the title of "Pansies" and "Nettles", as well as a tract on Pornography and Obscenity.
The return to Italy allowed Lawrence to renew old friendships; during these years he was particularly close to Aldous Huxley, who was to edit the first collection of Lawrence's letters after his death, along with a memoir. With artist Earl Brewster, Lawrence visited a number of local archaeological sites in April 1927. The resulting essays describing these visits to old tombs were written up and collected together as Sketches of Etruscan Places, a beautiful book that contrasts the lively past with Mussolini's fascism.
Lawrence continued to produce fiction, including short stories and The Escaped Cock (also published as The Man Who Died), an unorthodox reworking of the story of Christ's Resurrection. During these final years Lawrence renewed a serious interest in oil painting. Official harassment persisted and an exhibition of some of these pictures at the Warren Gallery in London was raided by the British police in mid 1929 and a number of works were confiscated. Nine of the Lawrence oils have been on permanent display in the La Fonda Hotel in Taos since shortly after his death. They hang in a small office behind the hotel's front desk and are available for viewing.
Lawrence continued to write despite his failing health. In his last months he wrote numerous poems, reviews, essays, and a robust defence of his last novel against those who sought to suppress it. His last significant work was a reflection on the Book of Revelation, Apocalypse. After being discharged from a sanatorium, he died at the Villa Robermond in Vence, France due to complications from tuberculosis. Weekley returned to live on the ranch in Taos and later her third husband brought Lawrence's ashes to rest there in a small chapel set amid the mountains of New Mexico.
While writing Women in Love, Lawrence developed a sexual relationship, in the town of Tregerthen, with a Cornish farmer named William Henry Hocking. The affair, though brief, seems to indicate that Lawrence's fascination with themes of homosexuality related to his own sexual orientation. Indeed, in a letter written during 1913, he writes, "I should like to know why nearly every man that approaches greatness tends to homosexuality, whether he admits it or not…" He is also quoted as saying, "I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16."
The obituaries following Lawrence's death were, with the notable exception of E. M. Forster, unsympathetic or hostile. However, there were those who articulated a more balanced recognition of the significance of this author's life and works. For example, his longtime friend Catherine Carswell summed up his life in a letter to the periodical Time and Tide published on March 16, 1930. In response to his critics, she claimed:
In the face of formidable initial disadvantages and life-long delicacy, poverty that lasted for three quarters of his life and hostility that survives his death, he did nothing that he did not really want to do, and all that he most wanted to do he did. He went all over the world, he owned a ranch, he lived in the most beautiful corners of Europe, and met whom he wanted to meet and told them that they were wrong and he was right. He painted and made things, and sang, and rode. He wrote something like three dozen books, of which even the worst page dances with life that could be mistaken for no other man's, while the best are admitted, even by those who hate him, to be unsurpassed. Without vices, with most human virtues, the husband of one wife, scrupulously honest, this estimable citizen yet managed to keep free from the shackles of civilization and the cant of literary cliques. He would have laughed lightly and cursed venomously in passing at the solemn owls–each one secretly chained by the leg–who now conduct his inquest. To do his work and lead his life in spite of them took some doing, but he did it, and long after they are forgotten, sensitive and innocent people–if any are left–will turn Lawrence's pages and will know from them what sort of a rare man Lawrence was.
Aldous Huxley also defended Lawrence in his introduction to a collection of letters published in 1932. However, the most influential advocate of Lawrence's contribution to literature was the Cambridge literary critic F. R. Leavis who asserted that the author had made an important contribution to the tradition of English fiction. Leavis stressed that The Rainbow, Women in Love, and the short stories and tales were major works of art. Later, the Lady Chatterley Trial of 1960, and subsequent publication of the book, ensured Lawrence's popularity (and notoriety) with a wider public.
A number of feminist critics, notably Kate Millett, have questioned Lawrence's sexual politics, and this questioning has damaged his reputation in some quarters since then. On the other hand, Lawrence continues to find an audience, and the ongoing publication of a new scholarly edition of his letters and writings has demonstrated the range of his achievement.
Lawrence is perhaps best known for his novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Within these Lawrence explores the possibilities for life and living within an Industrial setting. In particular Lawrence is concerned with the nature of relationships that can be had within such settings. Though often classed as a realist, Lawrence's use of his characters can be better understood with reference to his philosophy. His use of sexual activity, though shocking at the time, has its roots in this highly personal way of thinking and being. It is worth noting that Lawrence was very interested in human touch behaviour (see Haptics) and that his interest in physical intimacy has its roots in a desire to restore our emphasis on the body, and re-balance it with what he perceived to be western civilization's slow process of over-emphasis on the mind.
Among the most praised, The Prussian Officer and Other Stories provides insight into Lawrence's attitudes during World War I. His American volume The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories develops his themes of leadership as explored in the novels Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent and Fanny and Annie.
Although best known for his novels, Lawrence wrote almost 800 poems, most of them relatively short. His first poems were written in 1904 and two of his poems, Dreams Old and Dreams Nascent, were among his earliest published works in The English Review. His early works clearly place him in the school of Georgian poets, a group not only named after the present monarch but also to the romantic poets of the previous Georgian period whose work they were trying to emulate. What typified the entire movement, and Lawrence's poems of the time, were well-worn poetic tropes and deliberately archaic language. Many of these poems display what John Ruskin called the "pathetic fallacy," the tendency to ascribe human emotions to animals and even inanimate objects.
It was the flank of my wife
I touched with my hand, I clutched with my hand,
rising, new-awakened from the tomb!
It was the flank of my wife
whom I married years ago
at whose side I have lain for over a thousand nights
and all that previous while, she was I, she was I;
I touched her, it was I who touched and I who was touched.
— excerpt, New Heaven and Earth
Just as World War I dramatically changed the work of many of the poets who saw service in the trenches, Lawrence's own work saw a dramatic change, during his years in Cornwall. During this time, he wrote free verse influenced by Walt Whitman. He set forth his manifesto for much of his later verse in the introduction to New Poems. "We can get rid of the stereotyped movements and the old hackneyed associations of sound or sense. We can break down those artificial conduits and canals through which we do so love to force our utterance. We can break the stiff neck of habit…But we cannot positively prescribe any motion, any rhythm." Many of his later works took the idea of free verse to the extremes of lacking all rhyme and metre so that they are little different from short ideas or memos, which could well have been written in prose.
Lawrence rewrote many of his novels several times to perfect them and similarly he returned to some of his early poems when they were collected in 1928. This was in part to fictionalise them, but also to remove some of the artifice of his first works. As he put in himself: "A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him." His best known poems are probably those dealing with nature such as those in Birds Beasts and Flowers and Tortoises. Snake, one of his most frequently anthologised, displays some of his most frequent concerns; those of man's modern distance from nature and subtle hints at religious themes.
In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob tree
I came down the steps with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before me.
— excerpt, Snake
Look! We have come through! is his other work from the period of the end of the war and it reveals another important element common to much of his writings; his inclination to lay himself bare in his writings. Although Lawrence could be regarded as a writer of love poems, his usually deal in the less romantic aspects of love such as sexual frustration or the sex act itself. Ezra Pound in his Literary Essays complained of Lawrence's interest in his own "disagreeable sensations" but praised him for his "low-life narrative." This is a reference to Lawrence's dialect poems akin to the Scots poems of Robert Burns, in which he reproduced the language and concerns of the people of Nottinghamshire from his youth.
Tha thought tha wanted ter be rid o' me.
'Appen tha did, an' a'.
Tha thought tha wanted ter marry an' se
If ter couldna be master an' th' woman's boss,
Tha'd need a woman different from me,
An' tha knowed it; ay, yet tha comes across
Ter say goodbye! an' a'.
— excerpt, The Drained Cup
Pound was the chief proponent of modernist poetry and although Lawrence's works after his Georgian period are clearly in the Modernist tradition, they were often very different to many other modernist writers. Modernist works were often austere works in which every word was carefully worked on and hard-fought for. Lawrence felt all poems had to be personal sentiments and that spontaneity was vital for any work. He called one collection of poems Pansies partly for the simple ephemeral nature of the verse but also a pun on the French word panser, to dress or bandage a wound. His wounds still needed soothing for the reception he regularly received in England with The Noble Englishman and Don't Look at Me being removed from the official edition of Pansies on the grounds of obscenity. Even though he lived most of the last ten years of his life abroad, his thoughts were often still on England. His last work Nettles published in 1930 just eleven days after his death were a series of bitter, "nettling" but often amusing attacks on the moral climate of England.
O the stale old dogs who pretend to guard
the morals of the masses,
how smelly they make the great back-yard
wetting after everyone that passes.
— excerpt, The Young and Their Moral Guardians
Two notebooks of Lawrence's unprinted verse were posthumously published as Last Poems and More Pansies.
Lawrence's criticism of other authors often provides great insight into his own thinking and writing. Of particular note is his Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays and Studies in Classic American Literature. In the latter, Lawrence's responses to Whitman, Melville and Edgar Allan Poe shed particular light on the nature of Lawrence's craft.
Lawrence continued throughout his life to develop his highly personal philosophy, many aspects of which would prefigure the counterculture of the 1960s. His unpublished introduction to Sons and Lovers established the duality central to much of his fiction. This is done with reference to the Holy Trinity. As his philosophy develops, Lawrence moves away from more direct Christian analogies and instead touches upon Mysticism, Buddhism, and Pagan theologies. In some respects, Lawrence was a forerunner of the growing interest in the occult that occurred in the 20th century, though he himself would have identified as a Christian.
D. H. Lawrence also painted a selection of erotic works. These were exhibited at the Dorothy Warren Gallery in London's Mayfair in 1929. This exhibition included A Boccaccio Story, Spring and Fight with an Amazon. The exhibition was extremely controversial, with many of the 13,000 people visiting mainly to gawk. The Daily Express reported "Fight with an Amazon represents a hideous, bearded man holding a fair-haired woman in his lascivious grip while wolves with dripping jaws look on expectantly, [this] is frankly indecent."
- * "Be a good animal, true to your instincts." — The White Peacock
- * "Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms." — Sons and Lovers (edited out of the 1913 edition, restored in 1992)
- * "I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun." — Letter to Harriet Monroe, 1 October 1914
- * "Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up." — Women in Love
- * "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale." — Studies in Classic American Literature (also rendered as "Never trust the teller; trust the tale.")
- * "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically." — Lady Chatterley's Lover
- * "Her father was not a coherent human being, he was a roomful of old echoes." — Women in Love
- * "They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all." — "Whales Weep Not"
- * "If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down" — "The Rainbow"
- * "I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." — "Self-Pity"
D H Lawrence is considered by some to be one of the great literary artists of the twentieth century, but the texts of his writings, whether published during his lifetime or since, are, for the most part, textually corrupt.
The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D H Lawrence represents a major scholarly undertaking, which aims to provide new versions of the texts which are as close as can now be determined to those which the author would have wished to see printed. This ongoing project, started in 1979, will eventually encompass over 40 separate volumes, each complete with a high quality critical apparatus. The following list is based around the books in this authoritative standard edition. In general, where a text is not yet available in the Cambridge series, reference has been made to other reliable sources.
- * The White Peacock (1911), edited by Andrew Robertson, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-521-22267-2
- * The Trespasser (1912), edited by Elizabeth Mansfield, Cambridge University Press,1981, ISBN 0-521-22264-8
- * Sons and Lovers (1913), edited by Helen Baron and Carl Baron, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-24276-2
- * The Rainbow (1915), edited by Mark Kinkead-Weekes, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-521-00944-8
- * Women in Love (1920), edited by David Farmer, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-521-23565-0
- * The Lost Girl (1920), edited by John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-521-22263-X
- * Aaron's Rod (1922) edited by Mara Kalnins, Cambridge University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-521-25250-4
- * Kangaroo (1923) edited by Bruce Steele, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-38455-9
- * The Boy in the Bush (1924), edited by Paul Eggert, Cambridge University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-521-30704-X
- * The Plumed Serpent (1926), edited by L.D. Clark, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-521-22262-1
- * Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), edited by Michael Squires, Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-521-22266-4
- * The Escaped Cock (1929) (later re-published as The Man Who Died)
- * The Virgin and the Gypsy (1930)
Short stories
- * The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (1914), edited by John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-521-24822-1
- * England, My England and Other Stories (1922), edited by Bruce Steele, Cambridge University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-521-35267-3
- * The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird (1923), edited by Dieter Mehl, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-35266-5
- * St Mawr and other stories (1925), edited by Brian Finney, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-521-22265-6
- * The Woman who Rode Away and other stories (1928) edited by Dieter Mehl and Christa Jansohn, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-521-22270-2.
- * The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories (1930), edited by Michael Herbert, Bethan Jones, Lindeth Vasey, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (forthcoming), ISBN 0-521-36607-0
- * Love Among the Haystacks and other stories (1930), edited by John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-521-26836-2
- * Collected Stories (1994) – Everyman's Library, a comprehensive one volume edition that prints all sixty two of Lawrence's shorter fictions in chronological sequence
- * The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926)
- * The Horse Dealer's Daughter (1922)
- "The Odour of Chrysanthemums" (written between 1901 and 1914)
- * Love Poems and others (1913)
- * Amores (1916)
- * Look! We have come through! (1917)
- * New Poems (1918)
- * Bay: a book of poems (1919)
- * Tortoises (1921)
- * Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923)
- * The Collected Poems of D H Lawrence (1928)
- * Pansies (1929)
- * Nettles (1930)
- * Last Poems (1932)
- * Fire and other poems (1940)
- * The Complete Poems of D H Lawrence (1964), ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts
- * The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1914)
- * Touch and Go (1920)
- * David (1926)
- * The Fight for Barbara (1933)
- * A Collier's Friday Night (1934)
- * The Married Man (1940)
- * The Merry-go-round (1941)
- * The Complete Plays of D H Lawrence (1965)
- * The Plays, edited by Hans-Wilhelm Schwarze and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-24277-0
- * Study of Thomas Hardy and other essays (1914), edited by Bruce Steele, Cambridge University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-521-25252-0, Literary criticism and metaphysics
- * Movements in European History (1921), edited by Philip Crumpton, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-521-26201-1, Originally published under the name of Lawrence H. Davison
- * Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious (1921/1922), edited by Bruce Steele, Cambridge University Press, 2004 ISBN 0-521-32791-1
- * Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), edited by Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-55016-5
- * Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and other essays (1925), edited by Michael Herbert, Cambridge University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-521-26622-X
- * A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover(1929) – Lawrence wrote this pamphlet to explain his most notorious novel
- * Apocalypse and the writings on Revelation (1931) edited by Mara Kalnins, Cambridge University Press, 1980, ISBN 0-521-22407-1, His last book touching on primitive symbolism, paganism and pre-Christian religion
- * Phoenix: the posthumous papers of D H Lawrence (1936)
- * Phoenix II: uncollected, unpublished and other prose works by D H Lawrence (1968)
- * Introductions and Reviews, edited by N. H. Reeve and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-83584-4
- * Late Essays and Articles, edited by James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-58431-0
Travel books
- * Twilight in Italy and Other Essays (1916), edited by Paul Eggert, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-26888-5
- * Sea and Sardinia (1921), edited by Mara Kalnins, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-24275-4
- * Mornings in Mexico (1927)
- * Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian essays (1932), edited by Simonetta de Filippis, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-25253-9
Works translated by Lawrence
- * Lev Isaakovich Shestov All Things are Possible (1920)
- * Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin The Gentleman from San Francisco (1922), tr. with S. S. Koteliansky
- * Giovanni Verga Maestro-Don Gesualdo (1923)
- * Giovanni Verga Little Novels of Sicily (1925)
- * Giovanni Verga Cavalleria Rusticana and other stories (1928)
- * Antonio Francesco Grazzini The Story of Doctor Manente (1929)
Manuscripts and early drafts of published novels and other works
Scholarly studies of Lawrence's existing manuscripts reveal him to have been a careful craftsman. He often revised his works in a radical way by rewriting them, often over a period of years. Given this, it is interesting to compare these earlier drafts with the final, published versions
- * Paul Morel (1911-12), edited by Helen Baron, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-56009-8, an early manuscript version of Sons and Lovers
- * The First Women in Love (1916-17) edited by John Worthen and Lindeth Vasey, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-521-37326-3
- * Mr Noon (1920?) – Parts I and II, edited by Lindeth Vasey, Cambridge University Press, 1984, ISBN 0-521-25251-2
- * The Symbolic Meaning: The Uncollected Versions of Studies in Classic American Literature, edited by Armin Arnold, Centaur Press, 1962
- * Quetzalcoatl (1925), edited by Louis L Martz, W W Norton Edition, 1998, ISBN 0-8112-1385-4, Early draft of The Plumed Serpent
- * The First and Second Lady Chatterley novels, edited by Dieter Mehl and Christa Jansohn, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-47116-8. These two books,The First Lady Chatterley and John Thomas and Lady Jane were earlier drafts of Lawrence's last novel
- * The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume I, September 1901 – May 1913, ed. James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 1979, ISBN 0-521-22147-1
- * The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume II, June 1913 – October 1916, ed. George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-521-23111-6
- * The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume III, October 1916 – June 1921, ed. James T. Boulton and Andrew Robertson, Cambridge University Press, 1984, ISBN 0-521-23112-4
- * The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume IV, June 1921 – March 1924 , ed. Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton and Elizabeth Mansfield, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-521-00695-3
- * The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume V, March 1924 – March 1927, ed. James T. Boulton and Lindeth Vasey, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-521-00696-1
- * The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume VI, March 1927 – November 1928 , ed. James T. Boulton and Margaret Boulton with Gerald M. Lacy, Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-521-00698-8
- * The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume VII, November 1928 – February 1930, ed. Keith Sagar and James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-521-00699-6
- * The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, with index, Volume VIII, ed. James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-23117-5
- * The Selected Letters of D H Lawrence, Compiled and edited by James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-40115-1
Works about Lawrence Bibliographic resources
- * Paul Poplawski (1995) The Works of D H Lawrence: a Chronological Checklist (Nottingham, D H Lawrence Society)
- * Paul Poplawski (1996) D. H. Lawrence: A Reference Companion (Westport, Conn, and London: Greenwood Press)
- * P. Preston (1994)A D H Lawrence Chronology(London, Macmillan)
- * W. Roberts and P. Poplawski (2001)A Bibliography of D H Lawrence. 3rd ed. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press)
- * Charles L Ross and Dennis Jackson, eds. (1995) Editing D H Lawrence: New Versions of a Modern Author (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press)
- * Keith Sagar (1979)D H Lawrence: a Calendar of his Works (Manchester, Manchester University Press)
- * Keith Sagar (1982) D H Lawrence Handbook (Manchester, Manchester University Press)
Biographical studies
- * Catherine Carswell (1932) The Savage Pilgrimage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, reissued 1981)
- * Frieda Lawrence (1934) Not I, But The Wind (Santa Fe: Rydal Press)
- * E. T. (Jessie Chambers Wood) (1935) D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record (Jonathan Cape)
- * Edward Nehls (1957-59) D. H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography, Volumes I-III (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press)
- * Emile Delavenay (1972) D. H. Lawrence: The Man and his Work: The Formative Years, 1885-1919, trans. Katherine M. Delavenay (London: Heinemann)
- * Harry T. Moore (1974) The Priest of Love: A Life of D. H. Lawrence (Heinemann)
- * Paul Delany (1979) D. H. Lawrence's Nightmare: The Writer and his Circle in the Years of the Great War (Hassocks: Harvester Press)
- * G H Neville (1981) A Memoir of D. H. Lawrence: The Betrayal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- * John Worthen (1991) D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years, 1885 – 1912 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- * Mark Kincaid-Weekes (1996) D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile, 1912 – 1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- * Brenda Maddox (1994) D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage (W. W. Norton & Co)
- * David Ellis (1998) D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game, 1922 – 1930 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- * John Worthen (2005) D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (London: Penguin/Allen Lane)
- * Scandalous! the musical based on the life of D. H. Lawrence. Created by Glyn Bailey, Keith Thomas and Theasa Tuohy. Website / Scandalousthemusical.com
- * Look! We Have Come Through! based on the letters and works of D. H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda. Scripted by James Petosa and Carole Graham Lehan. Nominated for Helen Hayes Award 1998
Musical Theatre
- * Scandalous! the musical based on the life of D. H. Lawrence. Created by Glyn Bailey, Keith Thomas and Theasa Tuohy. Website:/ Scandalousthemusical.com
Literary criticism
- * Michael Bell (1992) D. H. Lawrence: Language and Being (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- * Richard Beynon, (ed.) (1997) D. H. Lawrence: The Rainbow and Women in Love (Cambridge: Icon Books)
- * Michael Black (1986) D H Lawrence: The Early Fiction (Palgrave MacMillan)
- * Michael Black (1991) D. H. Lawrence: The Early Philosophical Works: A Commentary (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan)
- * Michael Black (1992) Sons and Lovers (Cambridge University Press)
- * Michael Black (2001) Lawrence's England: The Major Fiction, 1913 – 1920 (Palgrave-MacMillan)
- * Keith Brown, ed. (1990) Rethinking Lawrence, Milton Keynes: Open University Press
- * Anthony Burgess (1985) Flame Into Being: The Life And Work Of D.H. Lawrence (William Heinemann)
- * Aidan Burns (1980) Nature and Culture in D. H. Lawrence (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan)
- * L D Clark (1980) The Minoan Distance: The Symbolism of Travel in D H Lawrence, University of Arizona Press
- * Colin Clarke (1969) River of Dissolution: D. H. Lawrence and English Romanticism (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul)
- * Carol Dix (1980) D H Lawrence and Women, Macmillan
- * R P Draper (1970) D H Lawrence: The Critical Heritage, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
- * Anne Fernihough (1993) D. H. Lawrence: Aesthetics and Ideology (Oxford:Clarendon Press)
- * Anne Fernihough, ed. (2001) The Cambridge Companion to D H Lawrence (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press)
- * Graham Holderness (1982) D. H. Lawrence: History, Ideology and Fiction (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan)
- * John R. Harrison (1966) The Reactionaries: Yeats, Lewis, Pound, Eliot, Lawrence: A Study of the Anti-Democratic Intelligentsia (Victor Gollancz, London)
- * Graham Hough (1956) The Dark Sun: A Study of D H Lawrence, Duckworth
- * John Humma (1990) Metaphor and Meaning in D.H. Lawrence's Later Novels, University of Missouri Press
- * Frank Kermode (1973) Lawrence (London: Fontana)
- * Mark Kinkead – Weekes (1968) The Marble and the Statue: The Exploratory Imagination of D. H. Lawrence, pp. 371-418. in Gregor, lan and Maynard Mack (eds.), Imagined Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Butt (London: Methuen,)
- * F. R. Leavis (1955) D H Lawrence: Novelist (London, Chatto and Windus)
- * F. R. Leavis (1976) Thought, Words and Creativity: Art and Thought in D H Lawrence (London, Chatto and Windus)
- * Sheila Macleod (1985) Lawrence's Men and Women (London: Heinemann)
- * Barbara Mensch (1991) D. H. Lawrence and the Authoritarian Personality (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan)
- * Kate Millett (1970) Sexual Politics (Garden City, NY: Doubleday)
- * Colin Milton (1987) Lawrence and Nietzsche: A Study in Influence (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press)
- * Robert E Montgomery (1994) The Visionary D. H. Lawrence: Beyond Philosophy and Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- * Alastair Niven (1978) D. H. Lawrence: The Novels (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- * Cornelia Nixon (1986) Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Turn Against Women (Berkeley: University of California Press)
- * Tony Pinkney (1990) D. H. Lawrence (London and New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf)
- * Charles L. Ross (1991) Women in Love: A Novel of Mythic Realism (Boston, Mass.: Twayne)
- * Keith Sagar (1966) The Art of D H Lawrence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- * Keith Sagar (1985) D H Lawrence: Life into Art (University of Georgia Press)
- * Daniel J. Schneider (1986) The Consciousness of D. H. Lawrence: An Intellectual Biography (Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas)
- * Michael Squires and Keith Cushman (1990) The Challenge of D. H. Lawrence (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press)
- * Peter Widdowson , ed. (1992) D. H. Lawrence (London and New York: Longman)
- * John Worthen (1979) D. H. Lawrence and the Idea of the Novel (London and Basingstoke, Macmillan).
- * T R Wright (2000) D H Lawrence and the Bible (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press)
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It's All The Social Conservatives Fault!
Posted by Foxfier on 2012/11/08
I really, really wish I were joking about the title, but I've actually heard several folks seriously suggest this. (Hugh Hewitt show had a co-host/guest suggest "dropping the abortion issue," for example—thankfully, Hugh pointed out that was…not a great idea.)
In a campaign where social issues were not focused on, where the SoCon vote was assumed, where the entire point would be "It's the economy, stupid" and our turnout dropped hugely… we should really ditch these social conservatives entirely and try to peel off some Democrat voters. I was one of the folks that was saying at the beginning that we could not just assume we'd get our own base and that all we needed was to go after other groups, though I—like many others—thought that things were obviously bad enough that maybe the base could be taken for granted.
We tried the "shut up about social issues, focus on the financial short-term disaster." Shock shock, it didn't work. The "of course" votes didn't show up, as best we can tell at this early of a time. Of course there was fraud and probably voter suppression, but we knew from the start that we'd have to win so big that they couldn't cheat.
I know the thinking Libertarians believe that Social Issues hurt us, and if we'd just drop them it would improve—but they ignore that if you let people do all the stupid stuff they immaturely desire, they are going to want to be saved by someone else. (I'm ignoring the sub-group of thinking Libertarians that thinks having children at is a "personal choice" with no serious effect on the future of society, and mostly only something that 'women want while they leach off men.' I wish that last part was not a very slight paraphrase.) Of course, thinking Libertarians think social issues hurt because when thinking Libertarians recognize the cause and effect of libertine personal actions in creating demand for a leech-State, they become at least isolationist conservatives, rather than Libertarians. But I'm digressing.
So, we tried assuming that the rah rah Abortion!! stuff on Obama's side would be enough to 1) get half our base out, and 2) get them to vote for Romney. Clearly, that was wrong.
We focused on the economy. I think we did pretty well on that, considering that Obama and Co could lie their tails off about what we actually said. (It's a given, sadly.)
That makes me think that we maybe should've beat on the military side of things a bit more as well. I have friends who are still active duty who thought I was blowing smoke up their rears when I told them there was never a protest when the Ambassador was killed, when that was known just days after the attack. (Power Line linked an interview in a UK paper that included quotes from the guys who were opening a hospital with the Ambassador; they were on the phone when the attack started, and there was no mention of a protest, which would've been a pretty big deal.)
So, we need to actually make our own case, try to win the base before we try to peel folks off, and probably improve our communication networks. I'm going to work even harder on applying this in person—when someone says something incredibly untrue in person, I'm going to politely correct them. Yes, it's uncomfortable and socially awkward, but that is what the other side's tactics depend on. At some point, the drunk in the party has to be confronted. We're there and past.
This is going to be especially hard on religious people. There are a lot of very nice people who…well… voted for Obama because that's what "nice" people do.
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Tagged: fantasy baseball closers
Aces on the Move: CJ Wilson, Heath Bell, and Joe Nathan
CJ Wilson may have been the top arm on the market this off-season, but the pressure is certainly not as intense on the hurler as it is on Albert Pujols. The reason is very simple, while Pujols is the best hitter in the world Wilson isn't even the best arm on the Angels.
Wilson's struggles in the postseason may have left a bad taste in the mouth of Rangers fans, but the hurler is actually in a much better situation now that he flees the hitter-friendly Ballpark at Arlington. Putting the 2011 playoffs aside, the year as whole brough great improvement for Wilson. His strikeouts went up while his walks went down.
Another factor for Wilson this season will be his run support. Typically leaving the Rangers, who are loaded with sluggers, will result in a decline of run support. However, that is not the case since Pujols will also join the Angels who already have some former first basemen who know something about providing big bats.
The Angels will be fun to watch for many reasons, and after falling to Pujols and the Cardinals in the postseason last season, Wilson should enjoy the shot at winning with Pujols as his teammate manning first base.
It made perfect sense for the Miami Marlins to sign Heath Bell. The veteran hurler has three straight seasons with 40-plus saves and while the Marlins have had some success in their bullpen in recent years, it has not been as dominant as what the Padres enjoyed. There is just one problem with bringing in Bell and expecting everything to run smoothly. There are signs that the 34-year-old may be losing his effectiveness.
A late bloomer with the Mets, Bell broke out in San Diego, where he had the benefit of little media attention and one of the most favorable ballparks for pitchers. In fact his 2.88 ERA on the road last season was not as dominant as the 2.15 ERA he posted at PETCO Park.
Bell also regressed as a strikeout hurler. His 11 K/9 dropped to 7 K/9, as his whiff rate fell by 9%. This is not just a matter of Bell losing velocity, in fact, the main issue has been a loss of effectiveness in his curveball. In 2010, the opposition hit just .141 against that pitch, and last season it spiked two-fold to .282. The out-pitch is not recording as many outs.
Bell should enjoy plenty of save opportunities since the Marlins did improve their starting rotation and offense, but there should be less heralded hurlers in fantasy leagues who can end up posting better numbers this season.
At first glance, last year was a disaster for long-time Twins closer Joe Nathan. His ERA doubled, his strikeouts declined, and his saves were cut drastically. Of course, Nathan was also returning to the mound after missing all of the 2010 with a major arm injury.
On that note, Nathan's statistics should be measured differently. Rather than focus on the full season, we should pay greater attention to the end of the season when he finally shed all of his rust. From June 25th on, Nathan was his usual dominant self. His WHIP was a dominant 0.90 from that point forward, which suggests that even in his late 30s, Nathan still possesses the ability to dominate.
Nathan now joins the Texas Rangers, and while he will throw the ball in a much more hitter-friendly ballpark, he joins a better club that will likely result in more save opportunities. The ERA may take a slight uptick, but overall he will enjoy more saves and have more value assuming he can stay healthy. It also allows some of the younger hurlers to take on larger roles in the starting rotation.


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As referenced in the post "A Butcher, A Baker, a . . . Harness Maker?" my family consists of several ministers. My great-uncle, Rollo Werts Amore, was commissioned in the Salvation Army in 1918. He performed many duties as an officer in the "Army". One of those was to officiate at my parents' wedding in 1943. He retired as a Senior Major in 1950 after serving in several Ohio cities.
My dad's first cousin, Raymond E. Amore, son of Herbert Irwin Amore, went to seminary and received his theology degree in 1953 from the Olivet Nazarene College in Illinois. He served the Warsaw Church of the Nazarene for about three years and the Hebron Church of the Nazarene for at least ten years.
My dad's sister, my Aunt Marie, went to the Salvation Army Training College in New York in the late 1930's and became an officer. She is currently (I believe) a Major.
A great-niece of my maternal great-grandmother went to school at the Ursuline Academy in San Antonio in the early 1930's and went on to take her vows and become a nun. A first cousin of mine was all but short of taking her final vows to become a nun when she and a man about to take his final vows to become a priest ended up getting married. They serve the Lord now as lay persons in their parish.
My great-uncle, Isaiah "Zade" Henderson Amore, was a minister in the United Evangelical Church and the Methodist Church.
My paternal side – the Amore and House families – was pretty consistent on what churches they attended and the denominations they affiliated with. William Amore – the first of my family of Amore ancestors I have located – attended the Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Coshocton County before switching over to the Salvation Army. That became the primary denomination within that family although others attended churches that were Baptist, Methodist or Nazarene. One thing is for certain – there was a calling within members of the Amore family to attend seminary or theological training to minister to others. My House ancestors primarily were affiliated with the Nazarene Church. My paternal grandmother, Ella House Amore, devoted much of her life to the Nazarene Church.
The Johnson family on my maternal side was primarily of the Reformed or Christian faith. In 1957 the Evangelical and Reformed churches and the Congregational and Christian Churches merged to form one denomination – the United Church of Christ – of which I have been a member since my confirmation in the mid-1970s.
The Stern side of my maternal branch came from the old German Dunkards or the Church of the Brethren. The men grew their beards and were conservatively dressed in dark clothes. The women didn't cut their hair, wore no make-up, little or no jewelry, and wore modest dresses and covered their heads. They didn't conform to the world's ways nor didn't allow instruments in worship. They frowned on those who enjoyed frivolity for its own sake or women who dressed "immodestly", and those who enjoyed alcoholic drinks.
In my previous post, I questioned how our ancestors' views on religion and faith shaped our lives and the lives of their descendents. I can only say for sure how my grand and great-grandparents' views have played a part in my own life. From the more conservative traditions of the Brethren, I was taught by words and actions that your reputation can be ruined just by one improper deed. That a person could and probably would be judged by the way they dressed, wore their hair, how they spent their leisure time, and talked to their elders. I learned at a very early age to speak to those older than I with respect and that persons in authority were to be held in high regard.
My father with both the Salvation Army and Nazarene background, attended some sort of church or religious service more days of the week than not. He learned by listening to the strict doctrine of what to do, what not to do, how to behave, how not to behave and then once leaving the place of worship seeing all those rules broken, that there is much hypocrisy within the church. To hear a sermon on how to love everyone and that God should be the only judge and then being faced with gossip and judgments behind others' backs, was what prompted him as he got old enough to decide that organized religion wasn't for him. Unfortunately, he hasn't ever been able to find that "happy medium".
My mother's sister converted to Catholicism upon her marriage so many of my cousins are members of the Catholic Church. From that, I've learned tolerance for other denominations.
While the United Church of Christ (UCC) seems quite liberal, there are many congregations that are still very conservative. Our Synod meets every two years and votes on items that have come up for review. Some of those items are very controversial and unfortunately the press reports on the votes as if the delegates at Synod are speaking for the entire UCC – they are not. Our denomination is autonomous on each level. The Synod doesn't tell the prior levels what the "creed" is, the Conference level doesn't speak for the Association or the individual congregations nor does the Association speak for the churches within it. In the UCC we are primarily free to follow our Christian faith based on our previous faith experiences. My congregation consists of families whose members have come from different denominations yet neither will "give in" to the other's creed or doctrine.
No, I do not keep my head covered as my great-great-grandmother, Nancy Caylor Stern, did. Nor do I wear remarkably conservative dresses. I do wear (sometimes) flashy jewelry and I enjoy hearing the piano, organ or other instruments during Worship. I like to dance and just have fun – just for the sake of having fun. However, I respect my elders (and not just those who are related to me), I strive to serve the Lord in word and deed, and I hope my actions speak toward my reputation.
For it is not those around us who will have to judge us – but the Lord, Our God, has that final say on our lives. He is the One who knows my heart and He is the One I serve.
(Picture 1: Rollo Werts Amore; Picture 2: my Aunt Marie; Picture 3: Isaiah (Zade) H. Amore; Picture 3: Central Christian Church, Anderson, Indiana where my Great-grandparents John & Katie Johnson were members; Picture 4: Nancy Caylor Stern with her grandchildren, John and Clarence Wilt)


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Treasures: A Shakespeare statue
Dear Helaine and Joe:
This statue of Shakespeare was a wedding gift to my husband's great-grandmother in the 1800s in England and has no flaws or visible markings. We would appreciate anything you could tell us about this piece, including its value.
J.A.V.H., Palmdale, Calif.
Dear J.A.V.H.:
There is absolutely no question in our minds that this figure of William Shakespeare was made in Staffordshire, England, sometime in the third quarter of the 19th century. We were not told, but we believe this piece is between 17-1/2 and 18 inches tall, which makes it a most imposing piece of pottery.
Staffordshire is a landlocked district of England east of Wales. Its main city is Stoke-on-Trent, which is known as the epicenter of the English ceramics industry. Staffordshire is also known for the Staffordshire bull terrier.
Staffordshire figures started being made in the 18th century, but the vast majority were made in the 19th century, and the 1800s is the time frame that is generally referred to when Staffordshire figures are mentioned by most collectors.
Such figures were not meant to be grand and displayed in fine houses, castles and mansions. Instead, they were inexpensive cottage ware and the English consuming public seemed not to be able to get enough of them. Modern collectors should be aware that reproductions of these figures -- particularly of dogs -- abound and today's buyer must beware.
Depictions of Shakespeare were made in several different styles. There are simple busts of the Bard of Avon, or depictions of him standing under a pointed arch. Other pieces show the great poet-playwright leaning against a half column with manuscripts on top. Some of these latter groupings are better than others.
In some, the column is ornate with masks around the base and fine enamel work. These figures tend to be valued for insurance purposes in the range of about $1,500, but the example in today's question is simpler, less well-painted and less valuable.
We have seen this particular model of Shakespeare attributed by an English auction house to Sampson Smith of Stoke-on-Trent and dated to circa 1864. This date may or may not be correct for the piece belonging to J.A.V.H., which may have been manufactured as late as the 1870s or even a tad later.
The value of Staffordshire figures has dropped in recent years, but this one is worth -- for insurance replacement purposes -- $300-$400 currently.
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In my latest column for RH Reality Check I reflect on the statement released by ACOG last week supporting making birth control pills available over the counter without a prescription.
What interests me about this, beyond the issue of improving access to contraception, is how it might mark a continuing shift in the role of medical providers in health care.
As doulas, we probably already understand that there is a movement of people working to take back more control and responsibility for their own health, particularly in the reproductive health arena.
In the article I mention Pati Garcia and the Shodhini Institute, a group that is working to bring back the practice of self-help and particularly cervical self-exams as a way to allow people to be more aware and active in managing their own health.
Doulas, in many ways, are part of this movement to empower and encourage pregnant people to be more educated and more involved in their own health.
I know personally this has been a struggle for me, and I've mostly been motivated to be more in charge of my own health by my frustration with providers who have not been able to address my own ongoing health concerns. They've suggested drug treatments that haven't worked, tests I couldn't afford, or dismissed my concerns outright. These negative experiences mean I've never built a long-lasting, trusting relationship with a medical provider. The closest I've come was an amazing acupunturist/herbalist I saw for over a year in Brooklyn. But with Western medical providers all of my experiences have been negative.
I think this shift could be a really great development in how we all manage our health, but its going to require a serious re-education effort for many of us who have lost touch with our bodies, have come to mistrust our role as experts over our own bodies.
It's sad, really, when you think about how much we've relinquished to the "experts" and how much we've minimized our own experiences of our bodies and our health. We rely instead on tests and book knowledge and medical studies, rather than our own daily experience of our lives and our health.
In my ideal world both things would be useful, but in equal degrees.
Armed with the knowledge of our own bodies, rhythms, cycles and changes we can much more effectively partner with medical providers when necessary. We could go to them with knowledge that will help them know how to treat our illnesses, rather than expecting them, from seeing us once or twice a year, to have all the answers. Then we won't need these prescription-filling visits to remind us to take care of our health—we'll be taking that responsibility on ourselves.
I'm proud that doulas are playing a role in empowering folks to make this shift–to trust their own intuition, their role as experts on what is happening in their bodies. In the coming weeks I'll have more information from Shodhini Institute and Pati Garcia about this work.
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Luning Prak ET, Young DS, Kamoun M, Nachamkin I, Alexander CB et al. 2008 ACLPS Panel Discussion on Resident Education in Clinical Pathology. Am J Clin Pathol 2009:131:618-622.
Barton JC, Acton RT, Anderson LE, Alexander CB. A Comparison Between Whites and Blacks with Severe Multi-Organ Iron Overload Identified in 16,152 Autopsies. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol, E-pub. 03/21/09
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Folberg R, Antonioli DA, Alexander CB. Competency-based residency training in pathology: Challenges and opportunities. Human Path 2002;33(1):3-6.
Alexander CB, McDonald JM. Cost-based (Part A) pathology physician services: Origin, current spectrum, and future. Clin Lab Med 1999;19(4).
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49ers' Leavitt makes best of second coaching chance
###less###p(((great)))NEW ORLEANS - 49ers LB coach Jim Leavitt has learned a lot in his interesting path from the lower levels of college football all the way up to the NFL. But his most important takeaway might be this: Don't worry about what you can't control.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))That served Leavitt well when he fell from college-football grace - and near royalty - as one of the birthing fathers of the University of South Florida program. The inaugural coach at USF, Leavitt had guided the Bulls from lowly startup with nothing but a trailer for the football offices and no practice field in its inception to a national presence, with five straight bowl appearances. But he was let go following the 2009 season when the university said Leavitt hit a player at halftime of the Louisville game that season.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))Leavitt went from making $1.5 million a year and being a rock star in the Tampa area with his bombastic sideline demeanor to being unemployed, and nearly forgotten. He spent 2010 searching for his next challenge. Leavitt did some work for Under Armour and was whipped into shape with Jon Gruden and Gruden's Fired Football Coaches of America group that pored over tape and stayed fresh with early-morning football think-tank sessions. Not exactly full-time work, however.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))Forgive Leavitt if he believes in signs, though. As he went back to Missouri for a weekend that fall to check on a business he owned in Jefferson City, Leavitt decided to go back to his alma mater for a game at Mizzou and do what years of pacing sidelines never allowed: sit in the stands and be a fan.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I could have gone on the sidelines; I did not want to do that. I wanted to go sit in the stands," said Leavitt, a safety at Missouri in the late 1970s. "I saw a bunch of guys I used to play with. I even tailgated. I never get a chance to do that. How fun it was. Never had been in that situation."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))As Leavitt watched Mizzou upset No. 1-ranked Oklahoma, one play stood out. A sophomore defensive end by the name of Aldon Smith who had just returned from a broken leg to intercept a Landry Jones pass and run it back 50 yards. Although Smith was caught from behind, the fact that he only had missed three games with the injury make for a pretty good explanation.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I was 50, maybe 60 percent (healthy) that day," Smith said. "But that play definitely changed my career."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))Leavitt's, too. ###less###em(((great)))Remember the name###less###/em(((great))), he thought. Coaches never forget talent. Leavitt had helped turn the lowly, sad Kansas State program into a defensive monster in the early 1990s, and the Wildcats mostly have been competitive since. But it's easy to forget just how bad they were before the arrival of Bill Snyder, Bob Stoops and Leavitt.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"We never even really prepared for Kansas State when I (played) at Missouri," Leavitt said. "We'd always scout the team after them on the schedule. I mean that, too. We never paid them any attention.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I missed one game in my career. It was the K-State game. (The coaches) said, 'You don't need to play this week, just rest.'"###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))South Florida football didn't even exist before Leavitt was hired as its first head coach in 1995, moving from Division I-AA all the way to being a member of the Big East. The program peaked at a No. 2 ranking in 2007 and for years proved to be a tough, defensive-oriented team that scared the wits out of the big boys.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))But the reason Leavitt found himself in the stands that day in Columbia, Mo. was because of what happened during the Louisville game. There were reports that Leavitt was untruthful in reporting what happened to school officials and that he tampered with the investigations. To this day, Leavitt said he did nothing wrong and believes that the claims stem from the school's desire to make a coaching change.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"There's no question the administration, they felt like we weren't where they wanted us to be (in the rankings) and I think it was more about that, thinking they maybe had a way of getting out of the contract," Leavitt said. "You'd have to ask them. I never knew the reasons I was (fired).###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"What's ironic is that I was not allowed to go back on campus to clean out my office, but before that I coached out the rest of the season. If it was that atrocious, whatever happened, why didn't they fire me sooner? I took the team internationally and coached in a bowl game. It made no sense. It was a different kind of deal.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I was always honest. I always tell the truth, even though the truth really isn't out there."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))Right or wrong, Leavitt was out at South Florida and his coaching career hung in the balance. Despite the fact he settled a suit with the school the following year for $2.75 million for "salary and benefits" and for his years of contributions to the USF program, there was a feeling he was blackballed in some coaching circles for the incident and its aftermath.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))But coaching is as much about who you know as what you know, and Leavitt got a call from new 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, who was putting a coaching staff together early in 2011. He needed a linebackers coach, and Leavitt suddenly was intrigued. He'd "never been much of an NFL guy" and "never had time to mess with it," he said, but was fascinated at the new challenge and took the job over a few college coordinator offers.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))Leavitt and Harbaugh never had worked together but had a connection. Leavitt had faced Jim's dad, Jack Harbaugh, when Leavitt was at USF and Jack was at Western Kentucky. They split the four-game series - the first two to Jack, the last two to Leavitt. They made a deal after that: No more playing each other.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"After the fourth game, I told Jack, 'I really don't want to play you guys anymore. You're too good.' He said, 'I don't want to play you guys either.' So I think there was a mutual respect there," Leavitt said.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))Leavitt went on to meet Jim Harbaugh at a handful of coaching conventions over the years. They were each there to learn, not schmooze. What they found as they spoke was that there was too much of the latter and not enough of the former.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I didn't care to socialize too much, and I don't think Jim did either. I just wanted to coach. I am not a big mingler," Leavitt said. "Jim, his personality, you just know he likes to coach and the other stuff is whatever. He wants to get done with this (media attention) and get out on the field."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))A match was made. Leavitt joined a staff that was loaded with veteran, sage coaching talent - coordinator Vic Fangio, DB coach Ed Donatell, DL coach Jim Tomsula - they were all dyed in the wool around the league, whereas Leavitt, for all his coaching prowess, was an NFL neophyte.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I didn't know Vic at all," Leavitt said. "I always appreciate him because I am sure he had a list of guys he had worked with before who could have been (the LB coach). That's not easy for a guy who has been a coordinator as long as he has to let me, the new guy, be a part of this deal."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))Leavitt jumped head first into his new gig. Right away, it was obvious he had an established star in Patrick Willis. But there was a question whether Takeo Spikes, who had an outstanding season in 2010, would return. Leavitt feared Spikes might sign elsewhere, so he dug into tape on NaVorro Bowman, who played sparingly behind Willis and Spikes. What Leavitt saw inspired him.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I had seen (Bowman) at Penn State and studied him more with Gruden," Leavitt said. "I knew he really wanted to start. I had no reservations whatsoever when Takeo left. I knew (Bowman) was very gifted. He's just so relentless to be great."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))Prior to the lockout hitting that March, Leavitt called Bowman and couldn't contain his excitement.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I was at Dave and Buster's with my son, getting in the car and he called me," Bowman said of his new LB coach. "He said, 'Man, I am excited to coach you guys. I've been watching you for a long time.'###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"But what he didn't know was that I was a fan of him, too. He was at USF, and he brought that team up from nothing. I was up at Penn State for my visit when they played USF, and I always wondered who that coach (of theirs) was. You'd see him on the sideline and he's so enthusiastic during the game, and that's the type of coach you want to play for.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"That first conversation I really knew he was happy to be my coach. That's what made me excited to come back (from the lockout) ready to go and see how far we can take this thing."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))After the lockout, the 49ers picked seventh in the 2011 draft. It was assumed they'd go with a quarterback, with Missouri's Blaine Gabbert the presumed favorite. Instead, they went with his college teammate, Smith. Leavitt was tickled. He thought of the play in the OU game and had picked his brain previously during the pre-draft process.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I took him out to breakfast," Leavitt said. "We talked about football, about Mizzou, about everything. I felt he might be something special."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))Remarkable equates to 33½ sacks in Smith's first 32 regular-season games. Although he has been held without a sack in his past five games, the longest spell of his early career, Smith contributed to the NFC championship victory with a tide-shifting fumble recovery of a botched Matt Ryan snap. Leavitt couldn't be happier for his young, gifted pass rusher's success.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"We always knew he was gifted. We knew he had the athletic talent," Leavitt said. "I didn't know him inside, how fast he would transition (to a 3-4 defense) coming from the 4-3 he had played in, to be honest with you. It's been remarkable, really."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))With Willis, Smith, Bowman and Ahmad Brooks, the 49ers' linebackers quickly ascended to becoming one of the finest units in the NFL, as dynamic as any foursome as the league has seen in recent seasons. Leavitt spends most of his time coaching the inside guys, Willis and Bowman, while Fangio works more with Smith and Brooks on the outside. Willis raised his game even more, and Bowman rose from obscurity before last season to become one of the NFL's premier inside 'backers. He credits Leavitt's encouraging style as a big reason why he has been able to take the next step.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"Anytime something goes bad, he finds something good in it," Bowman said. "He's not cursing or yelling at us; you're going to make mistakes, and Jim's a guy who comes over and says, 'You got it. You know what you did (wrong).' That's just something you want to hear in a tough game."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))It likely comes from his background as a player, and Leavitt is quick to correct his misguided Wikipedia page that mentions his time as a graduate assistant as Missouri but not his four years of playing there. The page lists his position as quarterback, not safety, which he didn't play after high school.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I am very proud of my Missouri days, and I think it was just such an interesting (coincidence) that I was there that day to see Aldon play," Leavitt said. "It was if it was meant to be."###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))After the fallout of the USF mess, Leavitt considers himself to be the luckiest coach in the world. He'll be coaching the NFL's best linebacker unit in Sunday's Super Bowl with a chance to hoist the Lombardi Trophy. For a man who never thought about the NFL and who was so ingrained into college football for more than half his life, it's a dream he never knew he could have before last season.###less###/p(((great)))
###less###p(((great)))"I didn't know what my future held, but I knew my time (at USF) was over," he said. "I was at peace with that. My life now has taken such a great turn. I feel I am infinitely blessed."###less###/p(((great)))


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