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Andrew - OK, I'll read DH Lawrence's poetry once again. Can't remember that I was all that impressed with them when first read. But, then, the volume I have on my shelves is a Penguin Selected from 1960, with intro. by one W. E. Williams. While not having read the poetry in decades, my recall of the Williams' intro. has proved to be correct. This sentence - "His poems were, so to speak, detonated rather than composed and, in his later life at any rate, he was suspicious and impatient of revision, a process he thought liable to interfere with the spontaneity of the poem." - has stuck in my mind over all those years. And has probably led to my mistrust of Lawrence's poetry: the "denial" of craft. Certainly, he was writing in the "heady" days of the psychoanalytic approach to just about everything; that is, attempting to tap directly into his "psyche" and thereby bypass the overlaying veneer of acquired civilisation... Well, that's my recall. Because I did study Lawrence's prose work in an MA course at Sydney University in the mid-70s. I had, before even starting the course, most of Lawrence's novels and short stories. Again from recall (because I haven't read Lawrence since then), I responded far more positively to his short stories than his novels. Cheers, Viv ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 11:22 AM Subject: Re: Ancient Mariner - Wrong > Mistake One: Subject was DHL, not Ancient Mariner. Sorry 'bout that. > Mistake Two: I meant 'smell of sweat' when talking of the dancing Indians - > but 'spell of sweat' has another dimension to it I guess. > > Andrew > > ---------------------------------------- > Andrew Burke Copywriting > [log in to unmask] Creative Writing > http://www.bam.com.au/andrew/ Editing > ---------------------------------------- > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%