Threnos for T. E. Lawrence and other writings, together with A Criticism of Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter, by T. E. Lawrence

This is a collection of important essays by Henry Williamson on books and writers, first published in 1994, and now expanded. The first piece, ‘Threnos for T. E. Lawrence’, is in its middle section a revised version of much of 'Genius of Friendship' (1941). However the beginning and the ending are different, relating to the circumstances of 1954 when the essay appeared in 'The European', the distinguished periodical. Richard Aldington had let Williamson know by his letters that after years of…