This book brings together articles and essays published over a period of about 60 years. These discussions lead to an assessment of Lawrence's poetry, showing how he has been regarded as a poet over the years, as well as analyzing the intrinsic merit of his poetry.

Part 1 Lawrence's writings on poetry/poets: excerpts from Lawrence's letters; Rachel Annand Taylor; a review of "Contemporary German Poetry"; a review of "Oxford Book of German Verse"; the Georgian Renaissance - a review of "Georgian Poetry 1911-12"; poetry of the present; from "Whitman"; a spiritual record - a review of "A Second Contemporary Verse Anthology"; a Britisher has a word with an editor; from "The Nightingale"; foreword to "Collected Poems"; chaos in poetry. Part 2 Writings on Lawrence's poems: the poetry of D.H.Lawrence, Olivia Shakespear; a modern Evangelist, John Gould Fletcher; a new English poet, Amy Lowell; Mr D.H.Lawrence, Arthur Waugh; D.H.Lawrence, Harold Monro; a background for contemporary poetry, I.A.Richards; D.H.Lawrence as poet, Richard Aldington; the passionate psychologist, Glenn Hughes; D.H.Lawrence - the poet, Anais Ninn; the poetry of D.H.Lawrence, Horace Gregory; D.H.Lawrence, Geoffrey Bullough; the burden of the mystery, Babette Deutsch; poetry, regeneration and D.H.Lawrence, Kenneth Rexroth; D.H.Lawrence, James Reeves; Lawrence and his demon, Richard Ellman; the poet in D.H.Lawrence, Herbert Read; black flowers - a new light on the poetics of D.H.Lawrence, Christopher Hassall; D.H.Lawrence - new heaven and earth, M.L.Rosenthal; D.H.Lawrence, W.H.Auden; the modern necessity, Stephen Spender; a haste for wisdom, D.J.Enright; the candid revelation - Lawrence's aesthetics, Joyce Carol Oates; a doggy demos - Hardy and Lawrence, Donald Davie.