Detective Story (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. H. Auden
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Police, Writing, England or English people, Storytelling, Detectives, Mysteries
The Poem
“Detective Story” was first published in Letters from Iceland, a 1937 account by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice of their 1936 trip to Iceland. The book is presented in the form of prose and verse letters to their friends and relatives and to Lord Byron, who was famous for his travels as well as for his poetry. Far from a conventional travel book, Letters from Iceland offers Auden the opportunity to comment on important and trivial matters concerning the world at large.
“Detective Story” appears in a letter to his wife, Erika Mann Auden, as...
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