A bibliography of the writings of D. H. Lawrence

by Edward D. McDonald

I. POETRY

GEORGIAN POETRY: 1911-1912

Published December 1912

Georgian / Poetry / 1911-1912 / (six small ornaments in triangular arrangement) / The Poetry Bookshop / 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. / London W. C.

Collation:—pp. viii + 200, consisting of half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with Dedicated / To / Robert Bridges / By the Writers / And the Editor on verso), pp. (iii, iv); Prefatory Note (with long quotation from Lord Dunsany on verso), pp. (v, vi); table of Contents, pp. (vii, viii); divisional fly-leaf, with Lascelles Abercrombie on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-193; p. (194) blank; Bibliography, pp. 195-197. Printers’ imprint at center of p. (198) as follows: Device (Stag and Tree) with lettering, The / Arden (device) Press / Letchworth Pp. (199, 200) blank.

Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in light brown boards; front cover lettered in gilt and ornamented as follows: Georgian Poetry / 1911-1912 / P (diamond) B (on bright red shield) / The Poetry Bookshop Backbone lettered in gilt: Georgian / Poetry / 1911-1912 Back cover blank. Top edges gilt; fore edges uncut and unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.

Five volumes of Georgian Poetry have so far been published. All but one of these volumes, that for 1916-1917, contain contributions by Mr. Lawrence. He is represented in the above collection, at pages 113-116, by “Snap-Dragon,” a poem which was printed in the English Review, June 1912, but which appeared for the first time between boards in Georgian Poetry. It was later included in Amores.

In America, the five volumes of Georgian Poetry were published, from the Poetry Bookshop sheets, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

GEORGIAN POETRY: 1913-1915

Published November 1915

Georgian / Poetry / 1913-1915 / (six small ornaments in triangular arrangement) / The Poetry Bookshop / 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. / London W. C. / MCMXV

Collation:—pp. x + 246, consisting of half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with In Memoriam / R. B. / J. E. F. on verso), pp. (iii, iv); Prefatory Note (verso blank), pp. (v, vi); table of Contents, pp. (vii-ix); p. (x) blank; divisional fly-leaf, with Gordon Bottomley on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-239; p. (240) blank; Bibliography, pp. 241-244. Pp. (245, 246) are occupied by advertisements of Poetry Bookshop Publications. Printers’ imprint at foot of p. (246) as follows: Printed by W. H. Smith & Son (The Arden Press), 53 (slanting line) 5 Fetter Lane, London, E. C.

Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in light blue boards; front cover lettered in gilt as follows: Georgian Poetry / 1913-1915 / The Poetry Bookshop Backbone lettered across in gilt and ornamented: Georgian / Poetry / 1913-1915 / P (diamond) B (on bright red shield). Back cover blank. Top edges gilt; fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. End-papers white.

To the second volume of Georgian Poetry Mr. Lawrence contributed the following poems: “Service of All the Dead;” “Meeting among the Mountains;” “Cruelty and Love.” They occupy pages 153-158. The last was reprinted from Love Poems; the first was later included in Look! We Have Come Through! where it appeared under the title “Giorno dei Morti.” “Meeting among the Mountains” has not, unless I am mistaken, been included in any of Mr. Lawrence’s books of verse.

SOME IMAGIST POETS

Published April 1915

Some Imagist / Poets / An Anthology / (publishers’ device) / Boston and New York / Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge / 1915

Collation:—pp. ii + x + 96, consisting of leaf, not reckoned in pagination, recto blank (with seven titles in The New Poetry Series, surrounded by one-line border, on verso), pp. (i, ii); half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with Copyright, 1915, By Houghton Mifflin Company / All Rights Reserved / Published April 1915 on verso), pp. (iii, iv); Preface, pp. v-(viii); table of Contents, pp. ix, (x); divisional fly-leaf, with Richard Aldington on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-(92); divisional fly-leaf, with Bibliography on recto (verso blank), pp. (93, 94); Bibliography, p. (95). Printers’ imprint at center of p. (96) as follows: The Riverside Press / Cambridge . Massachusetts / U . S . A

Crown 8vo, 7¾ × 5⅝; issued in plain flexible boards, with surrounding green paper wrappers glued along back strip only; front cover lettered in black as follows: Some Imagist Poets / An Anthology / The New Poetry Series / (publishers’ device) Houghton Mifflin Company / Boston and New York / (small ornament). Lettered down backstrip: Some Imagist Poets Back cover blank. All edges cut flush with boards. Wrappers over-lap top and bottom edges ⅛ inch, and fold in three inches at fore edges of boards. End-papers white.

To this volume, the first of three Imagist Anthologies published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, Mr. Lawrence contributed seven poems as follows: “Ballad of Another Ophelia;” “Illicit;” “Fireflies in the Corn;” “A Woman and Her Dead Husband;” “The Mowers;” “Scent of Irises;” “Green.” These poems occupy pages 67 to 78. The first and sixth appeared later in Amores. The second, third, fifth, and seventh were included in Look! We Have Come Through! But, “The Mowers,” revised, was here printed under the title “A Youth Mowing,” and “Illicit” became “On a Balcony.” “A Woman and Her Dead Husband” is, in New Poems, “The Bitterness of Death.”

Because the contributors to the Imagist Anthologies had agreed among themselves to submit nothing that had previously appeared in book form, these collections are of especial interest to collectors of Mr. Lawrence’s first printings in books.

The Imagist Anthologies were published in England by Constable and Company, but after the American editions, which were the first.

SOME IMAGIST POETS: 1916

Published May 1916

Some Imagist Poets / 1916 / (a line) / An Annual Anthology / (publishers’ device) / Boston and New York / Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge / 1916

Collation:—pp. ii + xvi + 98, consisting of leaf, not reckoned in pagination, recto blank (with thirteen titles in The New Poetry Series on verso), pp. (i, ii); half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with Copyright, 1916, By Houghton Mifflin Company / All Rights Reserved / Published May 1916 on verso), pp. (iii, iv); Preface, pp. v-(xii); table of Contents, pp. xiii, (xiv); acknowledgement—ten lines (verso blank), pp. (xv, xvi); divisional fly-leaf, with Richard Aldington on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-(91); p. (92) blank; divisional fly-leaf, with Bibliography on recto (verso blank), pp. (93, 94); Bibliography, pp. 95, (96); p. (97) blank. Printers’ imprint at center of p. (98) as follows: The Riverside Press / Cambridge . Massachusetts / U . S . A

Crown 8vo, 7¾ × 5⅝; issued in plain flexible boards, with surrounding green paper wrappers glued along back strip only; front cover lettered in black as follows: Some Imagist Poets, 1916 / An Annual Anthology / The New Poetry Series / (publishers’ device) / Houghton Mifflin Company / Boston and New York / (small ornament). Lettered down back strip: Some Imagist Poets, 1916 Back cover blank. All edges cut flush with boards. Wrappers over-lap top and bottom edges ⅛ inch, and fold in three inches at fore edges of boards. End-papers white.

To the second Imagist Anthology Mr. Lawrence contributed five poems: “Erinnyes;” “Perfidy;” “At the Window;” “In Trouble and Shame;” “Brooding Grief.” These poems occupy pages 67-74. All but “Erinnyes,” most beautiful of war poems, were later included in Amores. Any one of the many anthologies of war poetry might have enriched itself greatly by including “Erinnyes.” If any such collection did make use of this poem, I am unaware of it.

SOME IMAGIST POETS: 1917

Published April 1917

Some Imagist Poets / 1917 / (a line) / An Annual Anthology / (publishers’ device) / Boston and New York / Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge / 1917

Collation:—pp. viii + 92, consisting of half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with Copyright, 1917, By Houghton Mifflin Company / All Rights Reserved / Published April 1917 on verso), pp. (iii, iv); acknowledgement—eight lines (verso blank), pp. (v, vi); table of Contents, pp. vii, (viii); divisional fly-leaf, with Richard Aldington on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-(86); divisional fly-leaf, with Bibliography on recto (verso blank), pp. (87, 88); Bibliography, pp. 89, (90); p. (91) blank. Printers’ imprint at center of p. (92) as follows: The Riverside Press / Cambridge . Massachusetts / U . S . A

Crown 8vo, 7¾ × 5⅝; issued in plain flexible boards, with surrounding green paper wrappers glued along back strip only; front cover lettered in black as follows: Some Imagist Poets, 1917 (a line beneath numbers) / An Annual Anthology / (publishers’ device) / Houghton Mifflin Company / Boston and New York (small ornament). Lettered down backbone in black: Some Imagist Poets, 1917 (a line beneath numbers). Back cover blank. All edges cut flush with boards. Wrappers over-lap top and bottom edges ⅛ inch, and fold in three inches at fore edges of boards. End-papers white.

To this, the third and last Houghton Mifflin Imagist Anthology, Mr. Lawrence contributed only one poem, “Terra Nuova,” which occupies pages 69-75. “Terra Nuova” was later included in Look! We Have Come Through! under the title “New Heaven and Earth.”

NEW PATHS

Published May 1918

New Paths / Verse (dot) Prose (dot) Pictures / 1917-1918 / Edited by / C. W. Beaumont and M. T. H. Sadler / Decorated by / Anne Estelle Rice / (publisher’s device) / London / C. W. Beaumont / 75 Charing Cross Road W. C. 2

Collation:—pp. xii + 164 (with a frontispiece), consisting of half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); frontispiece; title-page, as above (with First published May 1918 on verso), pp. (iii, iv); dedication (verso blank), pp. (v, vi); table of Contents, pp. (vii-x); blank leaf, pp. (xi, xii); Verse, pp. 1-74; Prose, pp. 75-111; Pictures, pp. 112-164. At end of volume there is twelve-page, unnumbered and undated, catalogue of various Publishers’ Announcements Tipped-in between pp. (x) and (xi) is an errata slip—seven lines.

Foolscap 4to, 8¾ × 6¾; issued in light tan boards; front cover lettered and ornamented in dark blue as follows: New Paths / Verse (dot) Prose (dot) Pictures / 1917-1918 / (a bowl of fruit). Backbone has white paper title label, with one-line border in dark blue, lettered in dark blue: New / Paths / 1917-18 / (small ornament) / C. W. / Beaumont Back cover has at center woman’s head, in dark blue. Top and fore edges uncut and in part unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.

To this representative collection of modern verse, prose, and pictures Mr. Lawrence contributed two poems: “Labour Battalion” and “No News,” which occupy pages 37-39. So far as I am aware neither of these poems has been reprinted in any of Mr. Lawrence’s books of poems. It is likely that the edition of New Paths was small, for this book has already become scarce—at least for an anthology.

An American edition of New Paths was published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.

BOOK OF BRITISH VERSE

Book of British Verse. Edited by W. S. Braithwaite. Boston, 1919. (Small, Maynard and Company.)

Contains: “Kisses in the Train,” by Mr. Lawrence. This poem was reprinted from Love Poems; it appeared in the above anthology under the incorrect title “Kisses in the Rain.”

GEORGIAN POETRY: 1918-1919

Georgian Poetry: 1918-1919. (Selected by E. M.) London, 1919. (The Poetry Bookshop.)

Contains: “Seven Seals,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from New Poems.

MODERN BRITISH POETRY

Modern British Poetry. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. New York, 1920. (Harcourt, Brace and Company.)

Contains: “People;” “Piano,” by Mr. Lawrence. The former was reprinted from Look! We Have Come Through! the latter from New Poems.

AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN VERSE

An Anthology of Modern Verse. Chosen by A. M. With an Introduction by Robert Lynd. London (1921). (Methuen and Company.)

Contains: “Giorno dei Morti,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from Look! We Have Come Through!

POETICA EROTICA

Poetica Erotica. A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. Edited by T. R. Smith. Volume II. New York, 1921. (Boni and Liveright.)

Contains: “A Bad Beginning;” “Excursion;” “Last Words to Miriam;” “Lilies in the Fire;” “Mystery;” “New Year’s Eve;” “New Year’s Night;” “Reproach;” “Wedlock,” by Mr. Lawrence. These poems were reprinted from Love Poems, Amores, and Look! We Have Come Through!

THE LE GALLIENNE BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE

The Le Gallienne Book of English Verse. Edited, with an Introduction, by Richard Le Gallienne. New York, 1921. (Boni and Liveright.)

Contains: “All of Roses,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted apparently from Poetry, although these same verses were in 1917 included in Look! We Have Come Through! under the title “River Roses.” A marvelous lyric, however called.

GEORGIAN POETRY: 1920-1922

Published November 1922

Georgian / Poetry / 1920-1922 / (six small ornaments in triangular arrangement) / The Poetry Bookshop / 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. / London W. C. 1 / MCMXXII

Collation:—pp. xiv+210, consisting of half-title (with Published November, 1922 on verso), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with To / Alice Meynell / Made and printed in Great Britain. on verso), pp. (iii, iv); Prefatory Note, pp. (v-vii); p. (viii) blank; table of Contents, pp. (ix-xiii); p. (xiv) blank; divisional fly-leaf, with Lascelles Abercrombie on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-200; divisional fly-leaf, with Bibliography on recto (verso blank), pp. (201, 202); Bibliography, pp. 203-207. Printers’ imprint at center of p. (208) as follows: (Stag and Tree device), with lettering, The / Arden (device) Press / W. H. Smith & Son / The Arden Press, / Stamford Street / London, S. E. 1. Pp. (209, 210) blank.

Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in bright red boards; front cover lettered in gilt as follows: Georgian Poetry / 1920-1922 / The Poetry Bookshop Backbone lettered across in gilt: Georgian / Poetry / 1920-1922 / P (diamond) B (on dark blue shield). Back cover blank. Top edges gilt; fore edges uncut and in part unopened; bottom edges rough trimmed. End-papers white.

In this volume of Georgian Poetry Mr. Lawrence is represented by “Snake.” This remarkable poem appeared in the Dial, July 1921, and was later included in Birds, Beasts and Flowers.

A MISCELLANY OF POETRY: 1920-1922

A Miscellany of Poetry (1920-1922). Edited by W. K. Seymour. London (1922). (John G. Wilson.)

Contains: “Snake,” by Mr. Lawrence. This collection was, according to a line of type in the volume, published in December, 1922.

SHORTER LYRICS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Shorter Lyrics of the Twentieth Century. Selected, with a foreword, by W. H. Davies. London (1922). (Poetry Bookshop.)

Contains: “Gloire de Dijon;” “Service of All the Dead,” by Mr. Lawrence. These poems were reprinted from Look! We Have Come Through! The second poem appears in this volume under the title “Giorno dei Morti.” Probably Mr. Davies took it directly from Georgian Poetry: 1913-1915, where the older title was used.

NEW VOICES

New Voices: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry. Marguerite Wilkinson. New York, 1922. (The Macmillan Company.)

Contains: “Fireflies in the Corn,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from Look! We Have Come Through!

THE NEW POETRY

The New Poetry. Edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice C. Henderson, New York, 1923. (The Macmillan Company.)

Contains: “A Woman and Her Dead Husband;” “Fireflies in the Corn;” “Green;” “Grief;” “Service of All the Dead;” “Nostalgia;” “A Baby Asleep after Pain;” “Tommies in the Train;” “Resurrection,” by Mr. Lawrence.

All but one of these poems were evidently reprinted from Poetry, edited by the compilers of New Poetry. All but “Resurrection” have been printed in certain of Mr. Lawrence’s volumes of verse: namely, Amores, Look! We Have Come Through!, New Poems, and Bay.

BEST POEMS OF 1923

Best Poems of 1923. Edited by L. A. G. Strong. Boston (1924). (Small, Maynard and Company.)

Contains: “The Evening Land,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from Birds, Beasts and Flowers.

THE LITTLE BOOK OF MODERN BRITISH VERSE

The Little Book of Modern British Verse. Edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Boston and New York, 1924. (Houghton Mifflin Company.)

Contains: “Gloire de Dijon;” “A Baby Asleep after Pain;” “Nostalgia;” “Snake,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from Look! We Have Come Through!, Bay, and Birds, Beasts and Flowers.

SECOND SELECTIONS FROM MODERN POETS

Second Selections from Modern Poets. Made by J. C. Squire. London (1924). (Martin Secker.)

Contains: “Kangaroo;” “Snake;” “Man and Bat,” by Mr. Lawrence. All of these poems were reprinted from Birds, Beasts and Flowers.