Auden and MacNeice: Their Last Will and Testament – Thirties Classic or Existential Pause?

• Main Author: Greaves, Sara
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: travel literature; burlesque; the Thirties; existential Angst; Terza rima; Dante; exile; poetic quest; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; [SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature; Rima; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01311162

International audience This article focuses on the last chapter of W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice’s 1937 travel narrative: Letters from Iceland, written entirely in terza rima and entitled “Their Last Will and Testament”. A humorous parody of a legal document, the 23-page-long poem consists of an inv...