Poet, novelist, and classic of world literature. Born in 1885 in Eastwood. Graduated from the Faculty of Education at University of Nottingham. Made his poetic debut in 1909 in the English Review. Was published in anthologies of the Imagist poets. Among his contemporaries, he was best known as a novelist. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, but his work regularly faced harsh criticism and censorship. In 1919, Lawrence left England. The following years he spent traveling through Italy, Sicily, Ceylon, and other countries, and lived in the United States. He died in 1930 in France. A collection of D. H. Lawrence's poems, Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923), translated into Russian by Dmitry Manin, is currently in preparation.