An Exploration of a New Poetic Expression beyond Dichotomy

This study attempts to re-evaluate Lawrence's poetry which has often been read as a set of biographical documents or supplementary notes to his novels as fully independent literary work in the light of post-modern critical theory.The author carefully examines how Lawrence needed to misread his precursors the nineteenth-century Romantics to establish himself as one of the modern poets. What separates his poetry from his precursors' is his self-consciousness as a modern poet. His search for radical freedom in language and his meta-poetic exploration of a new poetic expression make him a true pioneer of the terra incognita in English poetry.