In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle goes on his travels to Taormina in Sicily, where D. H. Lawrence lived One tends to associate D. H. Lawrence with his native Nottinghamshire, although Lawrence left his mark on a great number of places. Helen Corke, for instance, […]
Italy, the beautiful country of fine good and wine, sun-bathed landscapes, Venetian canals, smouldering volcanoes, and sleepy lagoons, has often been immortalised and celebrated in poetry. Below, we’ve picked ten of the greatest poems about Italy written in the English language. Samuel Rogers, Italy. Rogers (1763-1855) is not much known […]