West Routt Library District

"This book will change the way you think about D. H. Lawrence. Critics have tried to define him as a Georgian poet, an imagist, a vitalist, a follower of the French symbolists, a romantic or a transcendentalist, but none of the usual labels fit." "The same theme runs through all his work, beginning with his very first novel, The White Peacock, and ending with the last line of his final book, Apocalypse. Always it is nature. He said this over and over...

"Foster is perhaps the last personal friend of Lawrence to write a book about him. He has given us not only an unforgettable picture of Lawrence himself - but also vivid portraits of Frieda Lawrence, Mabel and Tony Luhan, Dorothy Brett, Witter Bynner, and Spud Johnson, as well as a score of others who were a part of Lawrence's circle in Taos." Dust jacket. "Includes many rare photographs."

Water's character sketches of intimate friends, authors and others he met in early life, and in the forty years he lived in Taos.