For all its notoriety, Lady Chatterley's Lover is, essentially, just an extravagant sentimentalization of sex and nature through which D. H. Lawrence passionately protested against industrial civilization and Victorian prudery. But despite what Katherine Anne Porter has called its "imbecilic harmlessness," the book still draws devout support, as was shown during last year's obscenity trial in Britain when Lawrence's four-letter words and what the prosecutor called his "reverence for man's genitals" became great crusading issues. Certified by the court as not obscene, Lady Chatterley last week came onstage as a play...
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