Twilight in Italy and Other Essays

The first critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's 1912–16 essays.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), Paul Eggert (Edited by)

9780521007122, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 April 2002

404 pages, 5 maps
21.7 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.562 kg

D. H. Lawrence left England for the first time in May 1912, and began almost immediately to record his reactions to foreign cultures. He wrote a series of travel articles intended for newspapers, two of which are published here for the first time after having been rejected as too anti-German in the tense pre-war atmosphere. In 1915 he amplified some of these essays and wrote others for Twilight in Italy (1916), his first travel book. Profoundly charged by the disorienting anxieties of the War, these essays evince a confidence and intellectual daring which take them well beyond the bounds of the conventional travel sketch. All are published in this first critical edition of his 1912-16 essays, together with his eerily prophetic article, 'With the Guns', written upon the outbreak of war in 1914.

General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Cue-titles
Introduction
Twilight in Italy and Other Essays
Essays of Germany and Tyrol
Italian Essays, 1913 and 'With the Guns' 1914
Twilight in Italy [Italian days]
Appendixes
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
A note on currencies.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]