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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.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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. W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907 and brought up in Birmingham. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera librettos, and editing anthologies. He became an American citizen in 1946, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He died in Vienna in 1973.
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Paperback. Condición: Gut. 253 p. Binding with slight signs of handling, private dedication on endpaper. - Contents Foreword Preface I. Letter to Lord Byron (W.H.A.), Part I II. Journey to Iceland III. Louis MacNeice to Graham and Anne Shepard IV. For Tourists V. Letter to Lord Byron, Part II VI. Sheaves from Sagaland VII. W. H. Auden to R. H. S. Crossman, Esq. VIII. Letter to Lord Byron, Part III IX. W. H. Auden to E. M. Auden, No. 1 X. Eclogue from Iceland (L.M.) XI. W. H. Auden to E. M. Auden, No. 2 XII. Hetty to Nancy XIII. Letter to Lord Byron, Part IV XIV. W. H. Auden to Kristjan Andresson, Esq. XV. W. H. Auden to William Coldstream, Esq. XVI. Auden and MacNeice: Their Last Will and Testament Epilogue (L.M.) A map of Iceland. ISBN 9780571132973 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 208. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1244419
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