The White Peacock

The White Peacock is D. H. Lawrences first novel and is set in the Eastwood area of his youth. It involves themes such as the damage associated with mismatched marriages and the border between town and country. The book includes some notable descriptions of nature and the impact of industrialization with a provincialism that may be compared with that of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy. D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist poet playwright essayist literary critic and painter whose works represent a reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In his writings Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality spontaneity and instinct often apposing current social acceptance. E. M. Forster in an obituary notice described him as the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.