Today’s Poem: Piano

A failed seduction of D.H. Lawrence

Poul Friis Nybo’s Woman at the Piano, c. 1920 (Wikimedia Commons)

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) is a better poet than his casual readers are readers of his poetry. Or so at least it might seem when we consider the lingering effect of R v Penguin Books, the 1960 obscenity trial about the British publication of Lawrence’s 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

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