DH Lawrence "Lui Et Elle" Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of the great DH Lawrence reading one of his popular series of six"Tortoise" poems "Lui Et Elle" which was written and published in 1923 and comes from his philosophical collection ."Birds, Beasts and Flowers" a collection of poetry first published in 1923. These poems include some of Lawrence’s finest reflections on the 'otherness' of the non-human world. Lawrence started the poems in this collection during a stay in San Gervasio near Florence in September 1920. He continued working on individual poems in Taormina (Sicily), Ceylon and Australia before completing the book in February 1923 whilst staying in New Mexico. Many of these individual poems are popular in anthologies. However, they also need to be seen within the context of the whole book. In preparing the original collection for publication, the author grouped the poems into the sequence shown in the table of contents and then prefaced many of the sub-sections with brief quotations from the third edition of John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, a book that he was particularly interested in at the time. David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 — 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 5m 51s Date Found: Tue, Mar 01 2011 2:22 PM Category: Home Video Date Produced: Tue, Mar 01 2011 6:55 AM View Count: 0