572 Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Jacke reads "Odour of Chrysanthemums," D.H. Lawrence's story about a woman waiting for her husband, a coal miner, to come home. Then Mike Palindrome, the President of the Literature Supporters Club, stops by to discuss his trip to the Proust Conference and his thoughts on Lawrence's classic short story. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.9	in literary autobiography.
0:44.0	In particular, the autobiography of a passionate advocate for literature,
0:49.0	Ford Maddox Ford.
0:51.0	He was himself a great writer. His novel The Good Soldier is one of those sneaky great
0:56.2	classics of modernism. Not as showy as Ulysses or The Wasteland, but very, very good.
1:03.2	We've talked about that book a few times here on the podcast, but today we hear from his
1:07.3	memoirs when he was working, from a period when he was working as the editor of the English review.
1:14.3	Quote, in the year when my eyes first fell on words written by Norman Douglas,
1:19.8	G.H. Tomlinson, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and others.
1:24.4	Upon a day I received a letter from a young school teacher in Nottingham.
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