# Letters from Iceland

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- Book: [Letters from Iceland](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-macneice/letters-from-iceland) ([Letters from Iceland.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-macneice/letters-from-iceland.md))
- Authors: [Louis MacNeice](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-macneice), [Wystan Hugh Auden](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-h-auden)
- Publisher: Faber AND Faber
- ISBN: 978-05-7128-352-1
- Pages: 312
- Published: 2018-11-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.