This book of essays commemorates the birth centenary of D. H. Lawrence, who was aptly described by E. M. Forster as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." The essays, all specially written for this volume, re-examine in the light of many newly discovered biographical facts and with new critical insights a wide variety of issuesótextual as well as polemicalóconcerned with the many dimensions of Lawrence's own supreme "thought-adventure" in life.