Man Woman Relationship in D.H. Lawrence’s novels with special reference to ‘Sons and Lovers’ and ‘The Rainbow’

Pages:108-109
Sarita Dahiya (D.H. Lawrence College of Education, Jhajjar)
Sarita Dahiya (D.H. Lawrence College of Education, Jhajjar)

David Herbert Lawrence can rightly be described as one of the most disputed genius in the history of the modern English novel. It has been contended by E.A. Baker, “D.H. Lawrence is the most incontestable case in the age of Hardy, Conrad Kipling and Chesterton, of a genius born not made.” He has received both excessive praise and excessive abuses. He is condemned as a sex on the account of his uncommon preoccupation with sex. The controversy arose because of the proscription of The Rainbow and Lady Chatterley’s Lover on grounds of immorality has come in the way of a fair and impartial assessment of his worth as a novelist. T.S. Eliot has denounced him as an uncultured man, insensitive to ‘ordinary social morality’ and I.A. Richards has not accepted him for his holding ‘Magical beliefs in an age of Science.’ According to I.R. Leavis, he is a great novelist; “one of the very greatest.” D.H. Lawrence writes because of the internal compulsion or necessity. He seeks relief from his internal problems by externalizing them in fiction.