Twilight in Italy

by D. H. Lawrence

Overview

In these essays, written not long after his elopement with Frieda von Richtofen in 1912, D.H. Lawrence recorded much of what he saw and felt as he traveled with her from Bavaria to Gargano.

TWILIGHT IN ITALY is not autobiographical, nor can it be labeled as travel sketches. Most of the pieces are vivid, sensitive, masterful, often rhapsodic impressions of the Italian countryside and the Italian temper.

With his genius for combining psychological perception, sociological insight, and personal enthusiasm, Lawrence transforms ordinary rights of passages into intense beauty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443734899
Publisher:	Pomona Press
Publication date:	11/17/2008
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was a novelist, poet, playwright, painter, critic and an icon of 20th-century literature. He began writing at an early age, publishing his first novel, The White Peacock, when he was twenty-five, Sons and Lovers two years later and The Rainbow and Women in Love in his thirties. His hatred of militarism, openly expressed during the First World War, stirred a wave of vilification that forced him to leave England and embark on what he called his 'Savage Pilgrimage'.

He spent the remainder of his life traveling - to Italy, Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), Australia, America, Mexico and the South of France - and it was during this time that he wrote such classics as Sea and Sardinia, The Plumed Serpent and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

With the exception of E.M. Forster, who called him 'the greatest novelist of our generation', and friends such as Aldous Huxley, Lawrence's obituarists were mostly dismissive or hostile. It was not until the Lady Chatterley trial thirty years after his death and the subsequent publication of the book that Lawrence was finally recognised as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of his age.

Date of Birth:

September 11, 1885

Date of Death:

March 2, 1930

Place of Birth:

Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England

Place of Death:

Vence, France

Education:

Nottingham University College, teacher training certificate, 1908

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Crucifix across the Mountains

Part I On the Lago Di Garda
1.The Spinner and the Monks
2. The Lemon Gardens
3. The Theatre
4. San Gaudenzio
5. The Dance
6. Il Duro
7. John

Part II Italians in Exile
8. Italians in Exile

Part III The Return Journey
9. The Return Journey

Editorial Reviews

"If this is travel writing, it is travel writing in excelsis - beyond the spectacle, beyond the experience, beyond even the interpretation, into profound conclusions of the spirit," —Jan Morris

"It cannot be read as an ordinary travel book, for his voyage is philosophic, as well as a symbolic and sensuous one." —Anais Nin

"The sharpness of Lawrence's eye is incredible...brilliantly informative, educative, entertaining and moving." —Anthony Burgess

From the Publisher

‘The sharpness of Lawrence’s eye is incredible [. . . ] brilliantly informative, educative, entertaining and moving.’

Anthony Burgess

‘It cannot be read as an ordinary travel book, for his voyage is philosophic, as well as a symbolic and sensuous one.’

Anais Nin

‘If this is travel writing, it is travel writing in excelsis – beyond the spectacle, beyond the experience, beyond even the interpretation, into profounder conclusions of the spirit.’

Jan Morris