Revisiting the poetry of D. H. Lawrence

Have you built your ship of death, O have you?

D. H. Lawrence seems rather out of fashion these days, but let me put my cards on the table at the outset: I have loved Lawrence since I was about 12, and I still think he was a genius who wrote wonderfully about both women and children — and how women feel about children — despite being (shocker!) neither a woman nor a parent. Cancel me now!

I came back…