Sea and Sardinia

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist playwright essayist poet literary critic and painter who published under the name D. H. Lawrence. 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. After the traumatic experience of World War I Lawrence began what he termed his savage pilgrimage a time of voluntary exile where he escaped with his wife from England and spent the remainder of his life travelling. In 1921 Lawrence joined the British literary tradition of writing a travelogue. He and his wife Frieda embarked on a journey to Sardinia for its promise of unspoiled primitiveness and lack of many tourists. Sea and Sardinia records Lawrences voyage to Sardinia revealing his response to the new landscape and inhabitants of this part of the Mediterranean. It is also a self-revealing journal in which Lawrences passions rages and perspectives get frequent work-out.