Unsigned handwritten poem by D. H. Lawrence, one page, 5.5 x 6.25, no date. Lawrence wryly comments on the publication of his controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, headed: "A little poem to go in with the Nettles: O Pino!" The poem, in full:
"O Pino
What a bean-o
When we printed Lady C.!
Little Giuntina
couldn't have been-a
better little bee.
When you told him
perhaps they'd scold him
for printing those naughty words
he could only say:
But we do it every day!
like the pigeons and the other little birds!"
In fine condition. This is a shorter version of a light, humorous poem written shortly after the first publication of Lawrence's controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. The subject, Guiseppe 'Pino' Orioli, was a Florentine bookseller who published the original, limited edition of Lawrence's censored novel. Crackling with puns and double-entendres, the poem wittily comments on the prudishness of inter-war Europe. While a French version of Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in 1929, the novel did not appear in Lawrence's homeland until 1932, and even then, it was published as an expurgated version. Lady Chatterley's Lover was only published in the United States in 1959, and in London in 1960, when it became the subject of the sensational trial Regina v. Penguin Books Limited, galvanized around the work's use of 'taboo' sex words.
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