1,,F 1,4 iii 4 o I • PENGUIN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICS APOCALYPSE AND THE WRITINGS ON REVELATION David Herbert Lawrence was born into a miner's family in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1883, the fourth, of five children. He attended Beauvale Board School and Nottingham High School, and trained as an elementary schoolteacher at Nottingham University College. He taught in Croydon from 1908. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 19I1, just a few weeks after the death of his mother to whom he had been extraordinarily close. His career as a schoolteacher was ended by serious illness at the end of Pp 1. In 1912 Lawrence went to Germany with Frieda Weekley, the German wife of the Professor of Modem Languages at the University College of Nottingham. They were married on their return to England in 1914. Lawrence had liublished Sons and Lovers in 1913; but The Rainbow, completed in 1913, was suppressed, and for three years he could not find a publisher for Women in Love, completed in 1917. After the war, Lawrence lived abroad, and sought a more fulfilling mode of life than he had so far experienced. With Frieda, he lived in Sicily, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Mexico and Mexico. They returnedniturope in 1923. His last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was published in 1928 but was banned in England and America. In 1930 he died in Vence, in the south of France, at the age of forty-four. Lawrence's life may have been short, but he lived it intensely. He also produced an amazing body of work: novels, stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, translations, paintings and letters (over five thousand of which survive). After his death Frieda wrote that, 'What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope Of more and more life . .. a heroic and immeasurable gift.' Dr Mara ICalnins is Fellow in English at Corpus Christi College and Staff Tutor in Literature for the Board of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge. She has written widely on D. H. Lawrence and edited a collection of critical essays for his centenary year as well as a selection of his poetry. She has also edited three volumes for the definitive Cambridge edition of his works, John Worthen is advisory editor for the works of D. H. Lawrence in Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Currently Professor of, D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham, he has published widely on Lawrence; his acclaimed biography, D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912, was published in 1991. He has also edited a number of volumes in the authoritative Cambridge Lawrence Edition whose texts Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics are reproducing. II 1111II D. H. LAWRENCE APOCALYPSE AND THE WRITINGS ON REVELATION EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY MARA KALNINS PENGUIN BOOK PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, .27 Wrights Lane, London w8 5rz, England Penguin Books USA Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New Yorki oors, IJSA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, so Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada hip 3132 Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, 582-390 Wairau Road, Auckland so,New Zealand Penguin BooksL td, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published 193r Cambridge University Press edition published sq8o Published with new editorial matter in Penguin Books 1995 3 5 7 q so 8 6 4 Copyright © the Estate ofF rieda Lawrencellavagli, 1980 Introduction and Notes copyright ID Mara ICalnins, 1975 Chronology copyright John Worthen, 5994 All rights reserved The moral sight of the author has been asserted Typeset by Datix International Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in England by Clays Ltd, StIves plc Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject tn_fficsondition thar it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, 'p1o ut, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's tin any form of binding or cover other than that in blished and without a similar condition including this pn being imposed on the subsequent purchaser Contents - Note on the Penguin Lawrence Edition 3 Chronology 5 Introduction II Note on the Texts 33 Advisory Editor's Note 35 A Review ofThe Book of Revelation by Dr. John Oman 39 Introduction to The Dragon of the Apocalypse by Frederick Carter 43 Apocalypse 57 Appendixes I Apocalypse, Fragment I 553 II Apocalypse, Fragment 2. 177 III Apocalypsis II '95. Explanatory Notes 201 Further Reading 225 Note on the Penguin Lawrence Edition D. H. Lawrence stands in the very front rank of English writers this century; unlike some other famous writers, however, he has always appealed to a large popular audience as well as to students of literature, and his work still arouses passionate loyalties and fervent disagreements. The available texts of his books have, nevertheless, been notoriously inaccurate. The Penguin Lawrence Edition uses the authoritative texts of Lawrence's work established by an international team of scholars engaged on the Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H Lawrence under its General Editors, Professor James T. Boulton and Professor Warren Roberts. Through rigorous study of surviving manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and early printings the Cambridge editors have provided texts as close as possible to those which Lawrence himself would have expected to see printed. Dele- tions deliberately made by printers, publishers or their editors, accidentally by typists and printers — at times removing whole pages of text — have been restored, while house-styling introduced by printers is removed as far as is possible. The Penguin Lawrence Edition thus offers both general readers and students the only texts of Lawrence which have any claim to be the authentic productions of his genius.