Michael Black's third volume of commentary arrives at the peak of Lawrence's achievement: the fiction of the War years, 1913-20. He takes off from an analysis of Lawrence's writing method, a succession of spontaneous drafts, cumulatively rewritten into substantial structures...
Written during and immediately after the 1914-18 War, Lawrence's major fictions - notably The Rainbow and Women in Love - trace the growth and contemplate the state of industrial England in the twentieth century. Michael Black's introductory chapters show the theoretical interest...