3. Nature

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The natural world was central to DH Lawrence in both his work and his life. As a child he discovered the wonder of nature through his visits to the Hags farm through his relationship with Jessie Chambers. Later on as he travelled to countries as varied as Italy, America, Australia and Tahiti, the natural world offered enormous succour to Lawrence as his health declined through tuberculosis. It’s no surprise then that nature featured so heavily in his writing, whether in novels like The Rainbow and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, or some of the best nature poems ever written, including most famously The Snake. Michael Symmons Roberts suggests, in this third and final episode of ‘Three Faces of DH Lawrence’, that it could well be his nature writing that ensures that we’ll be coming back to this most vivid and vital writer’s work for another hundred years.