Foreword to Pansies. With an Introduction by Keith Sagar.

Bookseller Notes

An intriguing edition, with Sagar's illuminating introduction preceding the third version of the Foreword, published here for the first time, in which Lawrence reflects upon the government's seizure of his original typescript on the grounds of obscenity: 'There is nothing in the obscene words to be afraid of... they are like any other words, and all our fear hysteria was merely poor crude savage taboo-terror, nothing in it.'; continuing with a critique of Bolshevism and concluding, 'The mass, unopposed would certainly destroy mankind. It is for the minority to fight for existence of the sane, free, whole individual.'