The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Life ofD. H. Lawrence; George J. Becker, D.H. Lawrence; Richard Aidington, Portrait of a Genius, But. . . ; John Worthen, D.H. Lawrence. Vol. I: The Early Years; and an illuminating study of Lawrence's wife: Janet Byrne, A Genius for Living: The Life of Frieda Lawrence. Criticai studies: F.R. Leavis, D.H. Lawrence, Novelist; Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays; Graham Hough, The Dark Sun: D.H. Lawrence: A Centenary Celebration, ed. Peter Balbert and P.L. Marcus. Lawrence's Letters have been edited by both Aldous Huxley and (in two volumes) by H.T. Moore. See also Frieda Lawrence, Not I But the Wind and Other Autobiographical Writings, ed. Rosemary Jackson.

Tanizaki Junichiro—Edward Seidensticker has had a virtual monopoly on Tanizaki translations; The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, and several others (ali Knopf).

Further reading: Donald Keene, Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (2 vols.); Ken K. Ito, Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds; Van C. Gessel, Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata; Gwenn Boardman Peterson, The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata, and Mishima; also two autobiographical/critical works by Tanizaki him­self, Childhood Years and In Praise of Shadows.

Eugene 0'Neill—Vintage has Three Plays (Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude); Vintage has The Iceman Cometh; and Yale University Press has Long Day's Journey into Night. For other 0'Neill plays, see Six Short Plays of Eugene 0'Neill (Vintage); Seven Plays of the Sea (Vintage); Anna Christie (bound with The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape [Vintage]); Touch of the Poet (Yale U. Press); More Stately Mansions (Yale U. Press). The Library of America has the Complete Plays (3 vols.).

Further reading: The standard biography is Arthur and Barbara Gelb, 0'Neill. See also Barrett H. Clark, Eugene 0'Neill: The Man and His Plays rev. ed.; Doris Alexander, The Tempering of Eugene 0'Neill; F.I. Carpenter, Eugene 0'Neill.

T.S. Eliot—Harcourt issues hardbound volumes of the Collected Poems and Collected Plays. Some useful paperbacks: The Waste Land and Other Poems (Harcourt); Four Quartets (Harvest); The Sacred Wood (Methuen). Harvest also has Eliot's plays in separate volumes.

Further reading: A good biography is Peter Ackroyd's T.S. Eliot: A Life. See also: F.O. Matthiessen, The Achievement ofT.S. Eliot; George Williamson, A Readers Guide to T.S. Eliot; Hugh Kenner, The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot; Helen Gardner, The Art of T.S. Eliot; essay on Eliot in Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle; Elizabeth Drew, T.S. Eliot: The Design of His Poetry; E. Martin

Browne, The Making of T.S. Eliot's Plays. A good essay collection is Allen Tate, ed., T.S. Eliot: The Man and His Work. A sympa- thetic interpretation of Eliot as conservative is Russell Kirk's excel- lent Eliot and His Age.