D·H·劳伦斯是20世纪英国最独特最有争议的作家之一。他多才多艺;性格复杂,著述丰硕,颇具魅力。有人曾将其作品与印象派联系,也有人将其与野兽派、立体主义和未来派相提并论。可是很少有人将其作品与表现主义相比较。这当然有其原因:劳伦斯在其作品中从未提及表现主义、表现主义的任何代表人物或代表作,显然劳伦斯对表现主义的始末不甚了解。事实也正如布里翁·米切尔所指出的那样:“表现主义对英国戏剧、散文及小说的影响几乎等于零,表现主义在文学中甚至还未获得英国评论家的承认,更谈不上让英国小说家去仿效了……英国评论家于1924年前后开始讨论表现主义,而这时表现主义在德国已日渐消逝,因此可以推断表现主义对英国作家影响甚微”。 DH Lawrence is one of the most unique and controversial British writers in the 20th century. He is versatile; complex character, rich writings, very attractive. Someone once linked his work to Impressionism, while others compared it with Fauvism, Cubism and Futurism. Few people, however, compare their work with expressionism. Of course, this is the reason: Lawrence never mentioned in his works any representative or representative of expressionism and expressionism, and it is clear that Lawrence did not know much about expressionism. The fact is that, as Brehon Mitchell pointed out: “Expressionism has almost zero impact on English theater, prose and fiction, and expressionism has not even been recognized by British critics in literature, let alone British novelists follow the example ... British commentators began to talk about expressionism around 1924, when expressionism has faded away in Germany, so it can be concluded that expressionism has little effect on English writers. ”