Italian Visit

In this work, first published in 1953, C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours.

It is a poem in seven parts: ''Dialogue at the Airport''; ''Flight to Italy''; ''A Letter from Rome''; ''Bus to Florence''; ''Florence: Works of Art''; ''Elegy ...