V. D. H. Lawrence （1885-1930）

　　一。一般識記

　　His life and writing： David Herbert Lawrence was born at a mining village in Nottinghamshire. His father was a coal-miner with little education； but his mother， once a school teacher， was from a somewhat higher class， who came to think that she had married beneath her and desired to have her sons well educated so as to help them escape from the life of coal miners. The conflict between the earthy， coarse， energetic but often drunken father and the refined， strong-willed and up-climbing mother is vividly presented in his autobiographical novel， Sons and Lovers （1913）。

　　二。識記

　　1.Lawrence's major works： During his life-long literary career， he had written more than ten novels， several volumes of short stories and a large number of poems. Lawrence began his novel writing in his early twenties. His first novel， The White Peacock （1911）， is a remarkable work of a talented young man， acutely observant of nature and delighting in story. His second novel is The Trespasser （1912）， which is about the failure of human contact and the lack of warmth between people， which are to be further explored in his later novels. Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist only after Sons and Lovers was published. The Rainbow （1915） and Women in Love （1920） are generally regarded as his masterpieces in which symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly.

　　2.The Rainbow

　　（1） The story： The Rainbow is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh farm. The first part is about the marriage and life of Tom Brangwen and Lydia Lensky， a Polish widow. They have a deep and loving understanding of each other in spite of the utter foreignness between them. They can also communicate with the mysterious natural world. Their relationship is presented as the model one in the novel. The second part of the novel i