Snake and Other Poems
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These selections originally appeared in Love Poems and Others (1913), Amores (1916), Look! We Have Come Through! (1917), Tortoises (1921), and such periodicals as The Dial and English Review. In addition to the celebrated title poem, individual works include "A Collier's Wife," "Monologue of a Mother," "Quite Forsaken," "Wedlock," "Fireflies in the Corn," "New Heaven and Earth," and many others.
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11th September 1881 in Eastwood, a small mining village in Nottinghamshire, in the English Midlands. Despite ill health as a child and a comparatively disadvantageous position in society, he became a teacher in 1908, and took up a post in a school in Croydon, south of London. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and from then until his death he wrote feverishly, producing poetry, novels, essays, plays travel books and short stories, while travelling around the world, settling for periods in Italy, New Mexico and Mexico. He married Frieda Weekley in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in 1930.
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Snake and Other Poems - D. H. Lawrence
SNAKE
and Other Poems
D. H. Lawrence
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
MINEOLA, NEW YORK
DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS
GENERAL EDITOR: PAUL NEGRI
EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME : BOB BLAISDELL
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 1999 and reissued in 2016, is a new selection of D. H. Lawrence's poetry reprinted from standard texts. The Note has been specially prepared for this edition.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885–1930.
Snake and other poems / D. H. Lawrence ; Bob Blaisdell, ed.
p. cm. —(Dover thrift editions)
eISBN-13: 978-0-486-81284-7
I. Blaisdell, Robert. II. Title. III. Series.
PR6023.A93A6 1999
821'.912—dc21
98-41016
CIP
Manufactured in the United States by RR Donnelley
40647402 2016
www.doverpublications.com
Note
David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885 to a minister's daughter and a coal-miner in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in the north of England. He loved nature from boyhood and was an outstanding student, eventually earning a scholarship to attend college. He taught in an elementary school near London in 1909–1912 before health problems forced him to give up teaching. Through the modest success of his first three novels, including Sons and Lovers, and the appearance of poems and stories in Ford Maddox Hueffer's The English Review, Lawrence, with the encouragement of his wife-to-be, Frieda Weekley, set out to make his living as a writer.
In his writing over the next decade, he explored with unique clarity and subtlety some of the most sensitive aspects of married life, although he was often condemned for his candor. In 1915, The Rainbow was published but almost immediately suppressed by a nervous and self-righteous war-time England. Women in Love, though completed in 1916, was also shunned for its frankness about sexuality and individuality, and did not find a publisher until 1921. It was only at the end of his life that Lawrence was able to reach vast audiences. Before he died of tuberculosis in 1930, he had become famous, but unfortunately that fame came mostly from writing so-called obscenity
—his last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928).
Lawrence authored some of the twentieth century's greatest short stories, novels, essays, criticism, travel writing, and poetry. So powerful is his fiction that it has overshadowed his poetry. A contemporary of Pound, Hardy, Eliot, and Yeats, his exuberance and intensity were unmatched by any of them. He wrote about love, marriage, family, class, art and culture in various genres and at various times again and again, much like a painter returning to the same landscape and attacking or appreciating it as the mood and moment touched him. His earlier poems are formally conventional, but consistent with the themes and insights of his later, freer work. His animal
poems, including among others Snake,
Bat,
and the Tortoise
series, are his most extraordinary verses—a strange and wonderful mixture of aggressive identification and awed appreciation of difference: they are explosively rhetorical and often humorous. These poems seem to owe much to Whitman, a writer Lawrence both admired and ridiculed (see his Studies in Classic American Literature).
In the late 1910s, when editors feared the uproar his fiction might cause for their magazines or publishing houses, several collections of poems—helped rather than hindered by his notoriety—came tumbling out. Love Poems and Others (1913), Amores (1916), Look! We Have Come Through! (1917), and Tortoises (1921) are represented in this selection, with an ample selection coming from poems published in periodicals in 1921 and 1922 before their appearance in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923). Because of copyright restrictions, the sharp, bitter, often epigrammatic poems collected in Pansies (1929) and Nettles (1930) are not included in this edition.
Contents
From Love Poems and Others (1913)
Bei Hennef
A Collier's Wife
The Schoolmaster:
I. A Snowy Day in School
II. The Best of School
III. Afternoon in School: The Last Lesson
Cruelty and Love
From Amores (1916)
A Baby Running Barefoot
A Baby Asleep After Pain
Monologue of a Mother
The Wild Common
From Look! We Have Come Through! (1917)
And Oh—That the Man I Am Might Cease to Be—
She Looks Back
Frohnleichnam