![]() But at bottom he is an extraordinarily acute noticer of the world, human and natural. His reputation for "obscurity" is founded on such efforts. ![]() Lawrence is famous for his desire to capture the ineffable, to put into words the shifting ecstasies, both negative and positive, of the human soul in flux. The Rainbow is indeed full of "lovely things", yet it's rare to find detailed advocacy on behalf of its many verbal beauties. It is Lawrence's misfortune that this highly doctrinal and metaphysical writer is more often discussed doctrinally and metaphysically than aesthetically. Lawrence's religious language can sound merely religiose, and his attempts to describe the indescribable can lapse into ponderous, melodramatic floridity, as people wince through their wombs, swoon into helplessness, and feel flames of nausea in their bellies. There must be many who agree with the young Samuel Beckett, who read Lawrence's novella St Mawr in 1930, and afterwards wrote in a journal: "lovely things as usual and plenty of rubbish". ![]() I n several senses of the word, DH Lawrence is a difficult writer - difficult to follow at times, difficult to like at others. ![]()
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