D. H. Lawrence, Last Poems

Christopher Pollnitz (University of Newcastle)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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First circulation or publication 1932

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Italy (Publication/ performance)

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Poetry (any)

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First published in Florence,

Last Poems

(1932) is a posthumously issued volume in two parts, “More Pansies” and “Last Poems”. Each part is based on an autograph notebook, appropriately referred to as “The ‘Nettles’ Notebook” and “The Last Poems Notebook”, and respectively listed as E192b and E192a in the

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(Roberts 614-8). Lawrence composed the 231 “nettles” in the first notebook between February and September 1929, and although he extracted from “The ‘Nettles’ Notebook” the verse satires for

Nettles

(1930), ninety per cent of the poems remained uncollected at his death. None of the 88 entries in “The Last Poems Notebook”, “poems about death” composed in October and November 1929 (Nehls iii. 421), had been published when Lawrence died in…

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Citation: Pollnitz, Christopher. "Last Poems". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 January 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=33203, accessed 16 April 2024.]

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