One of the most required landmarks in literary criticism is the recognition,
study and investigation on the intertextual resonance of literary texts. They
conform a tradition in which every text has historical relationships with
others that came before it and after it 1. In the following essay, I will attempt
first to present a diachronic synthesis of dialectal usages in English literature:
the function of non-standard varieties and their representation in the works of
particular authors. This historical background will provide the necessary
context to proceed to offer and contrast the contributions made through the
novelistic production of D.H. Lawrence.
