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D. H. Lawrence. To the Editor of The Nation and Athenaeum
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Sir, – Mr. E. M. Forster, in a letter in your issue of March 29th, says “straight out” that the late D. H. Lawrence was “the greatest imaginative novelist of our time.”
I am the last person to wish to disparage the genius of Lawrence, or to disapprove when a writer of the eminence of Mr. Forster speaks “straight out.” But the virtue of speaking straight out is somewhat diminished if what one speaks is not sense. And unless we know exactly what Mr. Forster means by
Yours, etc.,