Darkness and Light: D. H. Lawrence and Witter Bynner in New and Old Mexico
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Once famous American poet Witter Bynner is now best known among Lawrentians for his acerbic memoir of D. H. Lawrence, Journey with Genius (1951). This essay explores what Bynner’s poems about Lawrence reveal about their fundamental clash of world views and poetic methods. Bynner’s two poems about Lawrence in his collection Caravan (1925) situate his friend as “an enemy of life,” aligned with “darkness,” “no man at all” and his long poem “D. H. Lawrence” figures him as a man who wants to be a wolf. This seems ill-judged as Lawence’s poetic self-portrait in “The Red Wolf” reveals his consciousness of an impassable gulf between himself and other beings. Bynner, who exercised his animosity towards others through humour, also took issue with Lawrence’s perceived lack of a sense of humour. However Bynner’s song-like collection Indian Earth (1929) shares some common ground with Lawrence’s songs of Quetzalcoatl in his novel The Plumed Serpent (1926), since both draw on the songs of Native Americans. In this respect, although both writers have been marginalized within the canon of modernist poetry, they deserve more credit for innovation.
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Once famous American poet Witter Bynner is now best known among Lawrentians for his acerbic memoir of D. H. Lawrence, Journey with Genius (1951). This essay explores what Bynner’s poems about Lawrence reveal about their fundamental clash of world views and poetic methods. Bynner’s two poems about Lawrence in his collection Caravan (1925) situate his friend as “an enemy of life,” aligned with “darkness,” “no man at all” and his long poem “D. H. Lawrence” figures him as a man who wants to be a wolf. This seems ill-judged as Lawence’s poetic self-portrait in “The Red Wolf” reveals his consciousness of an impassable gulf between himself and other beings. Bynner, who exercised his animosity towards others through humour, also took issue with Lawrence’s perceived lack of a sense of humour. However Bynner’s song-like collection Indian Earth (1929) shares some common ground with Lawrence’s songs of Quetzalcoatl in his novel The Plumed Serpent (1926), since both draw on the songs of Native Americans. In this respect, although both writers have been marginalized within the canon of modernist poetry, they deserve more credit for innovation.
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