In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international. 'Though writing in a "holiday" spirit,' commented Auden, 'its authors were all the time conscious of a threatening horizon to their picnic - world-wide unemployment, Hitler growing everyday more powerful and a world-war more inevitable.' The result is the remarkable Letters from Iceland, a collaboration in poetry and prose, reportage and correspondence, published in 1937 with the Spanish Civil War newly in progress, beneath the shadow of looming world war.
ISBN: | 9780571283521 |
Publication date: | 15th November 2018 |
Author: | W H Auden, Louis MacNeice |
Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 312 pages |
Genres: |
Travel writing Diaries, letters and journals |