The Priest of Love: a life of D.H.Lawrence

A very well-researched & presented biography of one of English literature's most controversial figures; Moore delves deeply into the very particular mind-set of Lawrence whose life was cut short by tuberculosis in 1930, a known diagnosis that must have driven him on to experiment & innovation with his work, both written & painted. The most crucial relationships of his life were often marked by argument & discord, and this conflict is well-reflected in Moore's accounts of his travels & travails with all-and-sundry; a difficult man to capture in words then. 'Bert' never found peace & contentment for very long, & this book gives some leeway to his wilder excursions, both to places & to human emotions, sexual feelings & his constant & unsatiated need for some kind of spiritual paradise.
That Lawrence began his life as the son of a