+ − Freeman 1:451 Jl 21 ’20 900w
“Mr Lawrence’s preface poses spontaneity as an ideal, promising poetry that ‘just takes place.’ That is interesting, but it does not explain Mr Lawrence’s poetry, which here as always betrays elaborate trouble in its preparation.”
+ − Nation 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 50w
“His ‘New poems’ reasserts his place among the most gifted, the most arresting of the English poets.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times 25:16 Jl 4 ’20 630w
“As you read the whole volume through it seems to you more and more that he feels too intensely about a great many things. There is this difference between him and older sentimentalists, that they were at the mercy of pleasant feelings, while he is often at the mercy of unpleasant; but it is still the same poet’s disease, and in both cases the feelings seem too intense for their cause.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p67 F 6 ’19 1100w
LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT. Touch and go. (Plays for a people’s theatre) $1.25 Seltzer 822
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Altho the background of this drama is a strike in a British colliery it is not intended as a propaganda play. The author is concerned with the tragic element in the struggle between capital and labor. He has defined tragedy as “the working out of some immediate passional problem within the soul of man.” The play also represents his idea that a “people’s” theater should deal with people, with men and women, not with stage types.