The texts are taken from Phoenix (edited by Edward D. McDonald, London: Heinemann, 1936) and Phoenix II (edited by Warren Roberts and Harry T. Moore, London: Heinemann, 1968). For more information and for essays not included here – with texts conforming as closely as possible to Lawrence’s intentions – readers are referred to the invaluable Cambridge University Press editions of: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays, Introductions and Reviews, Late Essays and Articles, Twilight in Italy and Other Essays, Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays, Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays.
‘Christs in the Tirol’: written September 1912; first published in Westminster Gazette, 22 March 1913. (This is the second of three versions of the piece, the last one published as ‘The Crucifix Across the Mountains’ in Twilight in Italy.) Phoenix.
‘Review of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann’: written by June 1913; first published in Blue Review, July 1913. Phoenix.
Study of Thomas Hardy : written September–December 1914; first published in Phoenix.
‘Whistling of Birds’: written early 1917; first published in Athenaeum, 11 April 1919. Phoenix.
‘Poetry of the Present’: written August 1919; first published (as ‘Verse Free and Unfree’) in Voices, October 1919, and (as ‘Poetry of the Present’) in The Playboy, nos. 4 and 5, 1919; reprinted as the preface to US edition of New Poems (1920). Phoenix.
‘Memoir of Maurice Magnus’: written November 1921–late January 1922; first published as introduction to Memoirs of the Foreign Legion by ‘MM’. Phoenix II.
‘Indians and an Englishman’: written September– October 1922; first published in Dial, February 1923. Phoenix.
‘Taos’: written September 1922; first published in Dial, March 1923. Phoenix.
‘The Future of the Novel’: written December 1922– January 1923; first published in Literary Digest International Book Review, April 1923 (as ‘Surgery for the Novel – Or a Bomb’). Phoenix.
‘Paris Letter’: written January 1924; first published in Laughing Horse, April 1926. Phoenix.
‘A Letter from Germany’: written February 1924; first published in New Statesman, 13 October 1934. Phoenix.
‘Pan in America’: written May–June 1924; first published in Phoenix.
‘The Bad Side of Books: Introduction to A Bibliography of the Writings of D. H. Lawrence ’: written 1 September 1924; first published 1925. Phoenix.
‘On Coming Home’: written end of 1924– early 1925; first published in Phoenix II.
‘Art and Morality’: written May– June 1925; first published in Calendar of Modern Letters, November 1925. Phoenix.
‘Morality and the Novel’: written May– June 1925; first published in Calendar of Modern Letters, December 1925. Phoenix.
‘The Novel’: written May–June 1925; published in Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and other Essays (1925). Phoenix II.
‘Why the Novel Matters’: written summer–end of 1925; first published in Phoenix.
‘The Novel and the Feelings’: written summer–end of 1925; first published in Phoenix.
‘Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine’: written mid-July–mid-August 1925; first published in Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and other Essays (1925). Phoenix II.
‘Man is a Hunter’: written May/June 1926; first published in Phoenix.
‘Return to Bestwood’: written mid–late October 1926; first published in Phoenix II.
‘Review of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway’: written by February 1927; first published as part of longer round-up of recent novels in Calendar, April 1927. Phoenix.
‘Flowery Tuscany’: written February–April 1927; first published in New Criterion, October, November, December 1927. Phoenix.
‘Germans and Latins’ (or ‘Flowery Tuscany IV’): written April 1927; first published in Phoenix.
‘Introduction to Mastro-don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga’: written April–May 1927; first published in Jonathan Cape’s Travellers’ Library edition of Mastro-don Gesualdo (1928). Phoenix II.
‘Why I Don’t Like Living in London’: written August 1928; first published in Evening News, 3 September 1928. Phoenix II (as ‘Dull London’).
‘Hymns in a Man’s Life’: written August 1928; first published in Evening News, 13 October 1928. Phoenix II.
‘Give Her a Pattern’: written December 1928; first published in Vanity Fair, May 1929. Phoenix II.
‘New Mexico’: written December 1928; first published in Survey Graphic, May 1931. Phoenix.
‘Myself Revealed’: written in December 1928 and partly derived from the earlier ‘Which Class I Belong to’ (written circa April 1927); first published in Sunday Dispatch, 17 February 1929. Phoenix II (as ‘Autobiographical Sketch’).
‘Introduction to these Paintings’: written December 1928–January 1929; first published in the exhibition catalogue The Paintings of D. H. Lawrence (1929). Phoenix.
‘Pornography and Obscenity’: written April 1929; first published in This Quarter, July–September 1929. Phoenix.
‘The Risen Lord’: written July 1929; first published in Everyman, 3 October 1929. Phoenix II.
‘Nottingham and the Mining Countryside’: written September 1929; first published in New Adelphi, June 1930. Phoenix.
‘Introduction to The Grand Inquisitor by F. M. Dostoievsky’: written by January 1930; first published by Elkin Mathews and Marot, July 1930. Phoenix.
‘Elegy’ by Rebecca West: First published in The New Adelphi, 3 (June–August 1930) pp. 298–309; later reprinted as D. H. Lawrence (London: Secker, 1930).