The entire work of the English novelist and poet David H. Lawrence is that of a great artist who portrays a world of people, drawing or describing emotions and temperaments. His themes are varied: family, individuals, loneliness, love, sensuality, depression and melancholy. The relationship between sex and literature is a very recurrent feature in his works, emphasizing the dignity and beauty of the human body, life as a possibility of plenitude, intelligence as a requirement and condition of freedom. The Virgin and the Gypsy represents the return of the mature Lawrence to his initial themes, although it was written between 1952-26, this book was not published until after his death (1930). In this novel one of the central motifs of his works reappears: love between distant social categories. Here this social distancing provides us with an important key to understanding Lady Chatterly,...read more