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World Poets: D H Lawrence

This evening is for those who read and love poetry, whether or not they have yet discovered D H Lawrence as a poet, rather than knowing him as the novelist who wrote Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow and others.

If you have ever read a poem by D H Lawrence, the chances are that it may well have been the unforgettable early portrait, in word, picture and sound, of him remembering a woman playing a piano; or the intensely relived-moment-by-moment drama of a snake in Sicily; or, perhaps especially, the great late poem which takes the idea of Bavarian gentians and extends it into the underworld lives of Persephone and Pluto as though that link were the most natural thing in the world.

But then Lawrence, who called his 1920-23 collection Birds, Beasts and Flowers, was eminently a poet of nature (among many who came after, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath both admired him for it) and of so much more than that; he was also a celebrant of human nature in his instinct for the tenderness, passion and struggle in the love between men and women, men and men, women and women.

Dates and times
7:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Mon 21 Jan 2019
Where
The Oak Lounge
Mercure Farnham Bush Hotel
The Borough
Farnham, Surrey
GU9 7NN
South East
Pricing
£12