The following is a selection of some of the best Lawrence criticism published since 1985.
Michael Bell, D. H. Lawrence: Language and Being (Cambridge University Press, 1992). Philosophically-based analysis of Lawrence’s work.
Michael Black, D. H. Lawrence: The Early Fiction (Macmillan, 1986). Very close analytical approach to Lawrence’s fiction up to and including Sons and Lovers.
James C. Cowan, D. H. Lawrence: Self and Sexuality (Ohio State University Press, 2002). Sensitive and intelligent psychoanalytical study.
Keith Cushman and Earl G. Ingersoll, eds., D. H. Lawrence: New Worlds (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003). Gathers essays about Lawrence and America.
Paul Eggert and John Worthen, eds., Lawrence and Comedy (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Collects essays concerning Lawrence’s uses of satire and comedy.
David Ellis, ed., Casebook on ‘Women in Love’ (Oxford University Press, 2006). Essays of modern criticism.
David Ellis and Howard Mills, D. H. Lawrence’s Non-Fiction: Art, Thought and Genre (Cambridge University Press, 1988). Collection which examines in particular Lawrence’s writing of the 1920s.
Anne Fernihough, D. H. Lawrence: Aesthetics and Ideology (Oxford University Press, 1993). Wide-ranging enquiry into the intellectual context of Lawrence’s writing.
Anne Fernihough, ed., The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Usefully wide-ranging collection.
Louis K. Greiff, D. H. Lawrence: Fifty Years on Film (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001). Detailed account and analysis of screen adaptations.
G. M. Hyde, D. H. Lawrence (Palgrave Macmillan, 1990). Brief but provocative account of all Lawrence’s writing.
Earl G. Ingersoll, D. H. Lawrence, Desire and Narrative (University Press of Florida, 2001). Postmodern approach to the major fiction.
Paul Poplawski, ed., Writing the Body in D. H. Lawrence: Essays on Language, Representation, and Sexuality (Greenwood Press, 2001). Gathers modern essays.
N. H. Reeve, Reading Late Lawrence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Especially finely written account of Lawrence’s late fiction.
Neil Roberts, D. H. Lawrence, Travel and Cultural Difference (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Valuable post-colonial study of Lawrence’s travel-related writings 1921–5.
Carol Siegel, Lawrence Among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women’s Literary Traditions (University Press of Virginia, 1991). Important and wide-ranging feminist reassessment of Lawrence.
Jack Stewart, The Vital Art of D. H. Lawrence (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999). Insightful study of Lawrence and the visual arts.
Peter Widdowson, ed., D. H. Lawrence (Longman, 1992). Useful collection surveying contemporary theoretical approaches to Lawrence.
Linda Ruth Williams, Sex in the Head: Visions of Femininity and Film in D. H. Lawrence (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993). Feminist approach to selected works of Lawrence.
John Worthen and Andrew Harrison, eds., Casebook on ‘Sons and Lovers’ (Oxford University Press, 2005). Essays of modern criticism.
The standard bibliography of Lawrence’s work is A Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence, 3rd edn., ed. Warren Roberts and Paul Poplawski (Cambridge University Press, 2001). A useful reference work is Paul Poplawski’s D. H. Lawrence: A Reference Companion (Greenwood Press, 1996) which gathers material up to 1994 and includes comprehensive bibliographies for most of Lawrence’s works; Poplawski’s ‘Guide to further reading’ in the Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence goes up to 2000.
Lawrence’s letters – arguably including some of his very best writing – have been published in an eight-volume complete edition, edited by James T. Boulton and published by Cambridge University Press.
Lawrence’s work has now been almost completely published in the Cambridge Edition; thirty-three volumes have appeared and are variously available in paperback and hardback. The edited texts from a number of the volumes have also been published by Penguin.
A biographical work on Lawrence still worth consulting is the magnificent three-volume D. H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography, ed. Edward Nehls (University of Wisconsin Press, 1957–9). Between 1991 and 1998, Cambridge University Press published a three-volume biography which remains the standard work: John Worthen, D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885–1912 (1991), Mark Kinkead-Weekes, D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile 1912–1922 (1996) and David Ellis, D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922–1930 (1998). The most recent single-volume modern biography is that by John Worthen, D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (Penguin Books, 2005).