The Plumed Serpent

"The Plumed Serpent" is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published by Martin Secker in 1926. The original working title of an early draft was "Quetzalcoatl", a reference to the cult of the plumed serpent in Mexico.

The novel has a contemporary setting during the period of the Mexican Revolution. It opens with a group of tourists visiting a bullfight in Mexico City. One of them, Kate Leslie, departs in disgust and encounters Don Cipriano, a Mexican general. Later she meets his friend, an intellectual landowner Don Ramon, and travels to Sayula, a small town set on a lake. Ramon and Cipriano are leading a revival of a pre-Christian religion and Kate becomes drawn into their cult.

Standard editions

* "The Plumed Serpent" (1926), edited by L.D. Clark, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-521-22262-1

* "The Plumed Serpent"(1926), Edited with an introduction by Ronald G. Walker, Penguin English Library, 1983

* "Quetzalcoatl" (1925), edited by Louis L Martz, W W Norton Edition, 1998, ISBN 0-8112-1385-4 – Early draft of "The Plumed Serpent"

External links

* [http://www.eiu.edu/~agora/Dec03/JSmithall.htm Völkisch Organicism and the Use of Primitivism in Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent]

* "Mythic Patterns in 'The Plumed Serpent'" http://litscholar.net/plumed%20serpent/ThePlumedSerpent.htm