A selective list of literary criticism for the British poet, novelist, and story writer D.H. Lawrence, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in editor and peer reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites
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Balbert, Peter. Courage at the Border-Line: Balder, Hemingway, and Lawrence's "The Captain's Doll". Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2006
Burack, Charles M. "Revitalizing the reader: literary technique and the language of sacred experience in D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover." Style, Spring, 1998
Burden, Robert. "Deconstructing Masculinity," in Radicalizing Lawrence: Critical Interventions in the Reading and Reception of D.H. Lawrence's Narrative Fiction (Rodopi, 2000). Preview at Google Books.
Delany, Paul. "'A Would-be-dirty Mind': D.H. Lawrence as an Enemy of Joyce." Dr. Delany contrasts D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Web published
Delany, Paul. On the editorial practices in The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D.H. Lawrence. Delany presents a careful analysis of the principles involved in editing modernist correspondence. From Dennis Jackson and Charles L. Ross, editors of Editing D.H. Lawrence (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1995).
Doherty, Gerald. "The art of appropriation: the rhetoric of sexuality in D.H. Lawrence," Style, Summer, 1996
Doherty, Gerald. "Metaphor and mental disturbance: the case of Lady Chatterley's Lover." Style, Spring, 1996
Dyson, Donald A. "D.H. Lawrence and the Ethical Approach to Literary Criticism," in Poetry Nation 3, 1974
Edwards, Justin D. "At the End of The Rainbow: Reading Lesbian Identities in D.H. Lawrence's Fiction." International Fiction Review, Volume 27, Numbers 1 & 2
Ellis, David. Publisher's blurb for D.H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D.H. Lawrence (1998)
Green, Jared F. "Modernism's dirty little secret." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2001
Howe, Andrew. "Beastly desire: Human/animal interactions in Lawrence's Women in Love." Papers on Language and Literature, Fall 2002
Kendrick, Walter. "A Thing About Men, and a Thing About Women." Discussing Brenda Maddox's biography of Lawrence, Professor Kendrick ponders whether Lawrence was homosexual. NYTimes, 11/27/94
Kinkead-Weekes, Mark. A review of D.H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile 1912-1922. Part of an unusual three-volume biography, in which each volume is written by a different author. Reviewed in Contemporary Review, May, 1997 by Joan Bridgman
Maddox, Brenda. A review of The Story of a Marriage (Simon & Schuster, 1994), a biography of D.H. Lawrence that approaches him through his marriage to Baroness Frieda von Richthofen Weekley. NYTimes, 11/14/94. Another review, by Professor Robert Kiely, Boston Book Review, August 1995
McQuien, Paul and Kim G. Hochmeister. On Lawrence's short novel St. Mawr and its Texas setting. From the web site Literary San Antonio, San Antonio College
Neilson, Brett. "D.H. Lawrence's 'Dark Page': narrative primitivism in Women in Love and The Plumed Serpent." Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1997
Peters, Joan Douglas. "Rhetoric as Idea: D.H. Lawrence's Genre Theory," Style, Spring 2000
Phillips, Ivan. An introduction to D.H. Lawrence, from the Literary Encyclopedia, 28 June 2002. On The Rainbow (1915); Women in Love (1920)
Rexroth, Kenneth. An introduction to Lawrence's poetry by Kenneth Rexroth, who states "Lawrence's free verse in Birds, Beasts, and Flowers is among the best ever written." Originally published as the Introduction to D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems (New Directions, 1947)
Sagar, Keith. A review of Sagar's The Art of D.H. Lawrence and of David J. Gordon's D.H. Lawrence as Literary Critic. Reviewed by V. de S. Pinto, who states "Keith Sagar has produced perhaps the most useful study of Lawrence that has appeared since F.R. Leavis's D.H. Lawrence Novelist." First page of article only, in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 71 (Aug., 1967), pp. 353-355
Sagar, Keith, ed. A review of D.H. Lawrence's Paintings in The Guardian. "D.H. Lawrence's paintings contain all the raw sexuality promised by his writings, and their nudity duly threw the establishment into turmoil." 11/8/03
Smith, Jad. "Völkisch Organicism and the Use of Primitivism in Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent." Smith contends that "using a proto-fascist ideology as subject matter for a novel or depicting an authoritarian leadership cult, even sympathetically at moments, does not necessarily or ultimately indicate an endorsement of fascist politics." D.H. Lawrence Review 30:3, 2002
Squires, Michael. "D.H. Lawrence's narrators, sources of knowledge, and the problem of coherence." Criticism, Summer, 1995
Stewart, Jack. "Lawrence and the creative process." Style, Summer, 2003
Stewart, Jack. "Linguistic incantation and parody in Women in Love." Style, Spring, 1996
Thornton, Weldon. A review of D.H. Lawrence: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction). Says the reviewer, "Thornton has no blunt ideological ax to grind. He firmly believes, however, that Lawrence's moody, evocative, and 'elusive' stories must be 'given the close attention they deserve.'" Covers "Odour of Chrysanthemums," "The Blind Man," and "You Touched Me," "England, My England" and "The Woman Who Rode Away." Reviewed in Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1996 by Brian Murray
Turner, John. "D.H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis." Syllabus for Professor Turner's class, University of Wales
Worthen John. A review of Worthen's D.H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (Counterpoint, 2005). Reviewed by Elizabeth Tallent in Threepenny Review, Spring 2007
Worthen, John. A review of DH Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider. Andrew Motion in this review admires Professor Worthen's effort to rehabilitate Lawrence's reputation, but objects that Worthen undervalues Lawrence's poetry (mentioning its influence on Ted Hughes). March 5, 2005, The Guardian. Another review, by Francine Prose in the NYTimes
Byatt, A.S. "The one bright book of life: D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover." Novelist A.S. Byatt takes on the subject of the feminist criticism of Lawrence by Kate Millett, Lawrence's sexism, and his many hostile readers. New Statesman, Dec 16, 2002 (taken offline at Findarticles.com)
Cooper, Catherine. "Ibsen, Lawrence, Galsworthy. Naturalist Drama and Environmental Influences. How the plays of three early modern authors show the influence of the environment on the quality of human life." The views of Ibsen, John Galsworthy, and D.H. Lawrence on the role of the environment in shaping character. London School of Journalism (taken offline)
Lansdown, Richard. "'I still have a little photograph of him in one of my studies'" Two reviews: of D.H. Lawrence: The Major Phase, by J. C. F. Littlewood, and Reclaiming D.H. Lawrence: Contemporary Writers Speak Out, by Gary Adelman. In The New Compass: A Critical Review 1 (June 2003) (taken offline)
Schapiro, Barbara. "Transitional States and Psychic Change." A psychoanalytic discussion of several female characters in Lawrence. Psyart, 1998 (taken offline at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart1998/schapi01.htm)
(taken offline) The University of Nottingham (the university from which Lawrence received his teaching certificate) maintains an up-to-date feature site on D.H. Lawrence, with many pictures. It also provides a link to an extended biography by Lawrence specialist, Professor John Worthen
The D.H. Lawrence Society of Australia publishes articles from its journal online. The journal doesn't appear to be peer-reviewed, but the discussion is literate and lively.
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