Worthen, John

Chronicles the life of twentieth-century English author D. H. Lawrence, examining his love for his mother, his love affairs, his marriage, his periods in New Mexico and Italy, and the influences of his difficult childhood and later relationships on his literary works.

Presents a biography of T.S. Eliot, exploring the scope of his poetic work and his modern legacy. Also tackles issues within Eliot's personal life, considering what brought about these difficulties and how they reflected on his body of work and out interpretation of it.

A radical new account of his early relationship with Frieda Weekley, Lawrence's woman of a life-time; and ends with the compoletion of his autobiographical novel Sons and lovers.