Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts
Author: first_name: D. H.
last_name: Lawrence
Language: English
Year: 1916

This was the Weekly Poem for 20 May 2006. We stretched our poetry-reading muscles with five versions of this much longer selection than usual (some 96 lines), in which D.H. Lawrence evokes a gritty yet sensitive picture of urban poverty before the First World War. (Summary by LauraFox)