Philip Hensher

Over the rainbow: D.H. Lawrence’s search for a new way of life

In her biography of Lawrence, Frances Wilson compares the writer’s restless foreign wanderings to those of Dante in The Divine Comedy

Portrait of D.H. Lawrence by Jan Juta. Credit: Getty Images
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  • Burning Man: The Ascent of D.H. Lawrence

    Frances Wilson

    Bloomsbury Circus, pp. 352, £25

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