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LaChapelle, deep ecologist and "ecocritic," examines Lawrence's life beginning with his childhood near Sherwood Forest, his intense lifelong relationship with nature, and his writing, ranking him alongside Thoreau and Muir as a crucial predecessor to modern environmentalism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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This book will change the way you think about D. H. Lawrence. Critics have tried to define him as a Georgian poet, an imagist, a vitalist, a follower of the French symbolists, a romantic or a transcendentalist, but none of the usual labels fit. The same theme runs through all his work, beginning with his very first novel, The White Peacock, and ending with the last line of his final book, Apocalypse. Always it is nature. He said this over and over again, and no one - especially those who feared the "old ways" of harmonious and balanced living on the earth - understood him.

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