"Lawrence was a man who was consumed with a desire to punish those who did not share his intense feelings, borne of personal conflict and a wish to do violence he could not quite bring himself to risk acting out. For this reason he hated rationality and emphasized violent feeling—'thinking with the blood'. He was a remarkable man but not a likable one. He believed in the dominance of strong emotion about which he was not very clear and he felt industrial life and social convention stifled natural urges. He also felt that this was true of intellectual rigour. His difficulty in coming to terms with the extremity of his feelings made him despise ordinary men and women because they did not seem to experience the same. Such impulses may create striking imaginative work but not a man who can see the world as possibly having merit apart from his own private experience."

Re: D.H. Lawrence.