Selected Poems

About this book

From early rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds Beasts and Flowers (1923) the poems of D. H. Lawrence challenged convention and inspired later poets. This volume includes extensive selections from these and other editions and contains some his most famous poems such as Piano a nostalgic reflection on lost youth and love for his mother; Snake exploring human fear of the natural world; the short cutting comment on sexual politics of Cant Be Borne; and the quiet philosophical resignation of Basta!. Using the revised poems but in the order in which they appeared in their original collections this selection offers a fresh perspective that reveals an innovative poet who gave voice to his most intense emotions.