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The History of Literature

87 Man in Love: The Passions of D.H. Lawrence

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Edwardian novelist D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) lived and wrote with the fury of a thousand suns. His novels Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and The Rainbow are commonly regarded as some of the greatest novels in literature – and for Lawrence, who also wrote eight other novels, ten collections of short stories, and 800 poems, they were only a fraction of his volcanic outpouring of words and ideas. How did this son of a barely literate coal miner end up one of the most prolific and sensational writers ever to have lived? What fueled his passions? How did he channel his highly imaginative world views into his novels? And what are we to make of him today? Host Jacke Wilson takes a look at the man who called himself a “savage pilgrim.”  FREE GIFT!  Write a review on iTunes (or another site), then send us an email at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com to receive your free History of Literature postcard as a thank you gift. Act now while supplies last!  Show Notes:  Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com or by leaving a voicemail at 1-361-4WILSON (1-361-494-5766).  You can find more literary discussion at jackewilson.com and more episodes of the series at historyofliterature.com. Check out our Facebook page at facebook.com/historyofliterature. You can follow Jacke Wilson at his Twitter account @WriterJacke. You can also follow Mike and the Literature Supporters Club (and receive daily book recommendations) by looking for @literatureSC. Music Credits: “Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA). “Piano Between” and “Drums from the Deep” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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H-O-O-L. Okay, hello. Thanks for joining us today. I'm Jack Wilson and this is my podcast. We're on our journey from the Epic of Gilgamesh. Actually, we should do one earlier than that, shouldn't we? I'm interested in those people too.

1:01.0

Pre-literate people. What kind of literature did they have or what

1:04.3

were their literary impulses? What did they do instead of literature? What would we

1:09.6

call that one? Episode Zero? I think we already have an episode zero.

1:14.4

We've already done that.

1:15.7

That was the one where we talked about battling the beast.

1:18.6

How about episode negative one?

1:20.6

We're getting into the territory of today's subject.

1:22.8

D.H. Lawrence, he'd have enjoyed that episode.

1:25.0

He liked thinking about humans before they started thinking too much.

1:28.0

When they lived by instinct, when they gazed at stars,

1:32.0

and walked through the wind, and felt the raindrops and

1:35.0

stared at the moon and felt the warmth of human touch. Instinct over intellect.

1:39.6

So that's today coming up D.H., we've been on a real tear here, Jade Austin to Don Juan.

1:46.6

What a swerve that was, except Jane Austin was a fan of Don Juan.

1:52.1

She admired him as a character of Don Juan. She admired him as a character as a compound of cruelty and lust.

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After Don Juan, you'd think we'd swerve back toward Jane Austin a bit, but no, we're going even farther out to the man who makes Don Juan's life

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