Comradeship did not disappear after the war. If the war-scarred friend now became a figure in the civilian landscape, the ideal of transcendent male bonds also found new life in the post-war setting. For many years after 1918, the essential problems of war – loss, injury, mourning, death – would occupy a critical place in British life, and the Victorian history of organizing intimacy, though tarnished, nevertheless retained a foothold as part of the culture's repertory for understanding and processing the trauma of war. No literary figure was more concerned with these shifts and movements than D. H. Lawrence. His is a voice of apotheosis for male intimacy, an unceasing and restless spirit demanding that the social order accommodate and embrace masculine bonds. In Lawrence's writing, the combined effects of the longing for male friendship and its devastating failure are conspicuously derived, and the connection between war and masculine intimacy haunts his work.