Enchantments and Attachments: Surviving and Coping in the First World War

Frayn, Andrew

Abstract

A talk to the department of English at University College Dublin, in the Wartime Attachments series, organised by Dr Barry Shiels. The series was funded by the Irish Research Council.

D. H. Lawrence described his poetry collection 'Bay', published in a limited edition in 1919 by Cyril Beaumont having been in press for over a year, as 'more or less about the war'. It is a document of the dying days of the conflict, largely conceived and written in early 1918 as Lawrence struggled to live by the pen following the suppression of The Rainbow (1915) and his ejection from Cornwall in 1917. In this talk, Andrew Frayn examines the attachments that sustained Lawrence as his parlous personal situation coincided with the fraught final year of the war.

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• Online Publication Date: Jun 7, 2016
• Publication Date: Jun 7, 2016
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