D. H. Lawrence — a remark

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“Art has two great functions. First, it provides an emotional experience. And then, if we have the courage of our own feelings, it becomes a mine of practical truth.”

Presenting art as both felt experience and a source of usable insight · Critical study, Studies in Classic American Literature

About D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

11 September 1885–2 March 1930

David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 at 8a Victoria Street in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, an English coal-mining town whose physical landscape, class divisions, and social pressures would remain central to his imagination. He was the fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a coal miner, and Lydia…

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