Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Part 1 Texts
- Part 2 Contexts and critical issues
- 9 The biographical issue: lives of Lawrence
- 10 Lawrence and modernism
- 11 Lawrence and the politics of sexual politics
- 12 Lawrence and psychoanalysis
- 13 Apocalypse now (and then). Or, D. H. Lawrence and the swan in the electron
- 14 Post-mortem: Lawrence’s critical and cultural legacy
- Guide to further reading
- Index
13 - Apocalypse now (and then). Or, D. H. Lawrence and the swan in the electron
from Part 2 - Contexts and critical issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Part 1 Texts
- Part 2 Contexts and critical issues
- 9 The biographical issue: lives of Lawrence
- 10 Lawrence and modernism
- 11 Lawrence and the politics of sexual politics
- 12 Lawrence and psychoanalysis
- 13 Apocalypse now (and then). Or, D. H. Lawrence and the swan in the electron
- 14 Post-mortem: Lawrence’s critical and cultural legacy
- Guide to further reading
- Index
Summary
Look then
where the father of all things swims in a mist of atoms
electrons and energies, quantums and relativities
mists, wreathing mists,
like a wild swan or a goose . . .
And in the dark unscientific I feel the drum-winds of his wings
Lawrence, ‘Give Us Gods’
Prophecy versus postmodernism: Lawrence at the millennium
Inevitably, so Lawrence might have said, death and rebirth, or at any rate transformation of some kind, have been both projects and subjects for the much anticipated and perhaps overhyped millennium, an event towards which he and his cohort of modernists seem to have been far more sensitively attuned than we ourselves. Rough beasts and second comings, chantings in orgy on summer morns, new styles of will, deaths of the old gang, strange lights in the sky, doves descending and swans arising: the apocalyptic ambitions of Lawrence's generation loom as grandly over ours as Stravinsky heaves high over MTV, Virginia Woolf over Fay Weldon.
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- The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence , pp. 235 - 252Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001
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