The Letters of D.H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell (1924-1925)

Lawrence (D. H.).  Edited by E. Claire Healey and Keith Cushman  Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara,  1985  Of 626 copies, this is one of 100 hardbound copies, signed by the editors. This copy is unnumbered but inscribed “D.H. Lawrence Estate” on the colophon    Fine copy  This complete correspondence charts the unexpected relationship between the miner’s son and the Boston lady of largesse. Lawrence dedicated his New Poems to Lowell and was accused by Pound of being an ‘Amygist.’ Though Lawrence resented the power her patronage gave her over him, the two writers continued an honest and insightful correspondence until Lowell’s death. 

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