D. H. Lawrence and Italy

In these impressions of the Italian countryside Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence''s stay among the people of Lake Garda whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. In Sea and Sardina Lawrence brings to life the vigorous spontaneity of a society as yet untouched by the deadening effect of industrialization. And Etruscan Places is a beautiful and delicate work of literary art the record of a dying man drinking from the founts of a civilization dedicated to life.