LETTERS FROM ICELAND by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice. 253 pages. Random House. $7.50.
Even a tourist-class guidebookthe kind written in hoked-up feature writer's prosefurnishes vicarious travel. Letters from Iceland is a first-class VIP travel book written by two poets; it provides not only the usual armchair transport but also a vicarious voyage into the past.
The period is 1936, and those who read this minor masterpiece for the first time will be given a lively sense of what it was like to be young in that year and possessed of an eloquent dread...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
