Life David Herbert Richards Lawrence Born: 11 September 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire(诺丁汉郡), England Died: 2 March 1930 (aged 44)Vence, France Father: a barely literate miner Mother: a former schoolmistressLife Showed exceptional talent at school Taught course at Nottingham University College Made the debut in the London literary world A turning point for him to become a fulltime author In 1915, a bad time for Lawrence, but he finished Women in Love at wartime conditions. In 1917, moved from one place to another because of poverty In 1926, backed to Europe and published Lady Chatterleys Lover in 1928He died of tuberculosis肺结核 in a sanatorium疗养院 in southern France at the age of 44.The White Peacock (1911)Sons and Lovers (1913)The Rainbow (1915)Women in love (1920) Aarons Rod (1922) Lady Chatterleys Lover (1928)Autobiographical novelIn 1999, the Modern Library ranked Sons and LoversSons and Lovers ninth on a list of the 100 best novels in English of the 20th centurysimilaritiesSons and LoversThe life of D.H.LawrencesettingEestwood, a mining townEastwood, a mining towncharactersFather: Mr. Morel, a coal minerFather: Arthur Lawrence, a coal minerMother: Gertrude Morel, a strong-willed, refined, middle-class girlMother: Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, ex-schoolteacherMiriam: spiritualJessie Chambers: spiritualClara: physicalOther women: physicalOedipus complex Pauls feeling toward his motherLawrences feeling towards his motherAutobiographical novel His later novels, which deal more extensively with themes of power, dominance, and leadership; the relationships that men form with one another, are also under exploration. These works include Aarons Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923), The Plumed Serpent (1926), and Lady Chatterleys Lover (1928). In Lady Chatterleys Lover, Lawrence not only condemns the civilized world of mechanism that distorts all natural relationships between men and women, but also advocates a return to nature. Lawrence is also a proficient poet. He began his poetry writing very early and wrote quite a large number of poems in his whole career. His poems fall roughly into three categories satirical and comic poems, poems about human relationships and emotions poems about nature Lawrences three influential plays are known as the Lawrence trilogy: A Colliers Friday Night矿工周五的夜晚(1909), The Daughter-in-Law儿媳(1912) and The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed守寡的霍尔伊德夫人 (1914), What the plays focus on is the direct and violent emotions of the main characters in times of crisis in their married life. The plays are presented with a higher degree of objectivity and detachment than the novels by Lawrence. The major characteristics of his novel is that he combined social criticism with psychological exploration in his novel writing. (1) The theme: In his writings, Lawrence has expressed a strong reaction against the mechanical civilization. (2) Lawrences influence on modern and contemporary English literature: He was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works.。