TY - JOUR
AU1 - Bradshaw, Graham
AB - GRAHAM BRADSHAW Lawrence's critical pronouncements are frequently contradictory. The most famous dictum, 'Never trust the artist, trust the tale', shows Lawrence's characteristic suspicion of any consciously directing authorial intelligence, at work within the work. The bulk of his criticism addresses more or less trivial literature and his most distinguished contemporaries were either ignored or, as in the cases of Proust, Conrad and Thomas Mann, ludicrously misrepresented; when he praises good or great literature, as in the Studies in Classic American Literature, he commonly insists that the works in question defeated their authors' attempts to control and spoil them, so that the qualities and meanings he admires were hardly ever, in his view, meant. Oddly, for an author who, towards the end of his life, emphasised that he wrote from his moral sense, Lawrence's criticism allows very few instances of consciously intelligent, morally responsi- ble creation; in his own novels and tales the artist is presented with suspicion or downright animus. However, the critical case is altered when the artist is, or can be plausibly represented as being, engaged in a struggle with his own intellectual inclinations. The extended discussion of Cezanne, in Introduction to These Paintings, is critically peculiar 
TI - ‘Lapsing Out’ in ‘Women in Love’
JF - English
DO - 10.1093/english/32.142.17
DA - 1983-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/lapsing-out-in-women-in-love-JZ3PNj08YH
SP - 17
EP - 32
VL - 32
IS - 142
DP - DeepDyve
ER -