Etruscan Places (Annotated)

Etruscan Places is D. H. Lawrence's luminous late travel book, a sequence of essays drawn from his 1927 journey through the ancient sites of Cerveteri, Tarquinia, Vulci, and Volterra. Part archaeology, part prose poem, part cultural polemic, it evokes painted tombs, ruined cities, and museum fragments with sensuous immediacy. Lawrence sets the vital, death-accepting Etruscan imagination against wh...