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According to Herbert Lindenberger, there have been two persistent traditions in the genealogy of the novel. The first of these might be called the novel of social relations. Its prime concern is not the individual in isolation, but in a given social situation. Its climaxes take the form of the dramatic interchanges between people, and its affinity with any other genre is surely with drama. The second tradition is a form concerned less with the individual's connection with other people than his relation to larger forces and, for that matter, to himself. Its climaxes are usually the protagonist's moment's of intuition and revelation. Lawrence belongs to this second tradition. Lawrence's most important attempt at a general definition of poetry is that poetry is visionary. The essential quality of poetry, he asserts, is that it makes a new effort of attention, and “discovers” a new world within the known world. Perhaps a major reason for the prolonged neglect of Lawrence's verse is that while his theory of the novel falls within a definable and acceptable tradition, his view of poetry was the exception than the rule in the earlier part of this century.