Letters from Iceland [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Auden, Louis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571132979 ISBN 13: 9780571132973

Casa editrice: W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, 2002

Riassunto

This highly amusing and unorthodox travel book resulted from a light-hearted summer journey by the young poets Auden and MacNeice in 1936. Their letters home, in verse and prose, are full of private jokes and irreverent comments about people, politics, literature and ideas. Letters from Iceland is one of the most entertaining books in modern literature; from Auden's 'Letter to Lord Byron' and MacNeice's 'Eclogue', to the mischief and fun of their joint 'Last Will and Testament', the book is impossible to resist - a 1930s classic.

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Descrizione del libro:

Letters from Iceland, by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, is one of the most entertaining books in modern literature, amounting to a highly amusing and unorthodox travel book from two giants of twentieth-century poetry.

L'autore:

Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907, the son of a Church of Ireland rector, later a bishop. He was educated in England at Sherborne, Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. His first book of poems, Blind Fireworks, appeared in 1929, and he subsequently worked as a translator, literary critic, playwright, autobiographer, BBC producer and feature writer. The Burning Perch, his last volume of poems, appeared shortly before his death in 1963.

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• Editore: W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0571132979
• ISBN 13: 9780571132973
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256