HARLEQUIN'S TAILORS: LETTERS FROM ICELAND

• 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 2016
• Subjects: light verse; Letter to Byron; double authorship; thirties; modernism; comedy; epistolary; Iceland; four-handed writing; travel writing; litt; hist
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01409613/file/viatica_-_harlequins_tailors_ltemgtletters_from_iceland_ltemgtltigtltigtby_w._h._auden_and_louis_macneice_-_2016-03-14.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01409613

International audience This article is a contribution to an issue of Viatica entitled "Ecrire le voyage à deux / Travel-writing in partnership". It investigates the writing process of "Letters from Iceland" (1937) - a parody of a modernist collage and burlesque travelogue - written by the two Thirties poets W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice.