Abstract
ABSTRACT This comparative article seeks to define the extent to which Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell’s Moon Country (1996), whose subtitle claims to be “further reports from Iceland”, can be examined as a footsteps travel narrative to Louis MacNeice and W. H. Auden’s Letters from Iceland (1937). By focusing on the issues of literary heritage, authorship, authenticity, and photography, it analyses mainly formal affinities between the two underappreciated travelogues, which share a tendency towards fragmentation and identity games, but exhibit quite different approaches to the theme of their travel. The article also seeks to restore some balance to the biased perception of their co-authorship, emphasising the achievement of Armitage and MacNeice in these particular Icelandic expeditions.
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