The first critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's 1912-16 essays. Lawrence left England for the first time in May 1912, and began to record his reactions to foreign cultures. In 1915 he amplified some of these essays and wrote others for Twilight in Italy (1916), his first travel book.

Soon the primroses are strong on the ground. There is a bank of small, frail crocuses shooting the lavender into this spring. And then the tussocks and tussocks of primroses are fully out, there is full morning everywhere on the banks and roadsides and stream-sides, and around the olive roots, a morning of primroses underfoot, with an invisible threading of many violets, and then the lovely blue clusters of hepatica, really like pieces of blue sky showing through a clarity of primrose.

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This is a newly designed and illustrated edition of Lawrence's portrait of Italy and the Italians. Set amidst the decaying lemon groves of Gargnano, the book reveals much about Lawrence himself. He uses his powers of honesty and intuition to capture the essence of an Italy that is now lost.

"Twilight in Italy" is a small book of travel essays, worth reading both for their own sake and for the light they throw on the context of Lawrence's work.D. H. Lawrence was a prolific and versatile writer whose plays, poems, novels, novellas, and short stories--more than forty volumes produced in a writing life of twenty years--often need to be read in the context of his essays, pamphlets, and travel books. There are four of these last, excluding the passages of description in his letters recording his expatriation in Europe, America, and Australia. The first of these journeys is recorded in his first travel book, "Twilight in Italy".

D. H. Lawrence, in full David Herbert Lawrence 1885-1930, was an English author of novels, poems, plays, short stories, essays and travel books. He is valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism, as well as one of the finest writers in English literature. His novels "Sons and Lovers 1913, The Rainbow 1915, and "Women in Love 1920 made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. Much is said of Lawrence's fiction, but many have forgotten about his remarkable travel writing. Twilight in Italy is a small book of travel essays, worth reading for the light they throw on the context of Lawrence's work.