The D H Lawrence novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country, bordered on the south-east by Guatemala, Belize and the Caribbean Sea?
The Plumed Serpent to men and surrender of the drive toward orgasm" and that its "overblown prose" makes it easy to reject. Anne Fernihough called "The Plumed Serpent" "stridently ideological". The Plumed Serpent The Plumed Serpent is a 1926 novel by D. H. Lawrence. Set in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, it was begun when the author was living at what is now the D. H. Lawrence Ranch near Taos in the U.S. state of New Mexico in 1924, accompanied by his wife Frieda and artist Dorothy Brett. Commentators have seen the book as having fascist overtones, and as expressing Lawrence's fears about
The Plumed Serpent character Don Cipriano as a projection of Lawrence himself, and his character Kate Leslie as a projection of Frieda Lawrence. F. B. Pinion considered the book "one of Lawrence's major novels, the most ambitious and successful of those he had written after "Women in Love"." According to Pinion, E. M. Forster regarded the book as Lawrence's finest novel. The novelist William S. Burroughs stated, in response to dismissive comments about Lawrence by Leslie Fiedler, that he was very influenced by "The Plumed Serpent". The critic William York Tindall called "The Plumed Serpent" "a great metaphor for a feeling about reality."