"A Prison for the Infinite": D. H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell on the War

Abstract

In his recent book War Trauma and English Modernism, Carl Krockel argues that Lawrence suffered from trauma, throughout not only the war years but for almost the entire remainder of his life. He is right to say so. The war smashed Lawrence, as an artist and as a man, and I would disagree with Krockel's thesis only insofar as he sees the beginning of a healing process at work in the final draft of Lady Chatterley's Lover (153-4). Lawrence responded to the war in many ways at the time – t...