D.H. Lawrence: The Thinker as Poet addresses a particular body of language and thought within Lawrence's oeuvre where the metaphorical, the poetic and the philosophical are intricately enmeshed. Lawrence emerges as a writer who pulls metaphor away from its merely rhetorical moorings: his distinctive style is the hallmark of one who thinks not analytically but poetically, about the birth of the self, the body unconscious, complex kinds of otherness and about metaphor itself as a mode of understanding.

FIONA BECKETT

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Thinking Metaphorically - Thinking Poetically in the Early Discursive Writing: The Birth of the Self - The Sensual Body in Lawrence's Early Discursive Writing - Language and the Unconscious: The Radical Metaphoricity of Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious I - Language and the Unconscious: The Radical Metaphoricity of Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious II - Undulating Styles: The Rainbow - 'The Tension of Opposites': The Oxymoronic Mode of Women in Love - 'Forbidden Metaphors': Lawrence and Language - Bibliography - Index