When Auden and MacNeice travelled in Iceland together in 1936, the verse, prose, letters and notes they recorded would appear the following year as 'Letters fro
As Auden wrote to Byron, here Thompson writes to Auden. It's a poem, a letter, an anachronism, and a parody. It's an irreverent and original venture into the wo
Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issues In 1949, Jean Cocteau spe