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.