Macspaunday

MacSpaunday is a nickname coined by Roy Campbell for four prominent British poets of the 1930s: Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, and C. Day-Lewis. The name combines parts of their surnames and was used, often with a hint of irony, to treat them as a single literary group rather than as four separate voices.

The label is mainly of historical interest now and is sometimes discussed alongside the term Pylon Poets.

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Critics of the 1930s sometimes spoke of MacSpaunday as if Auden, Spender, MacNeice, and Day-Lewis formed one school, even though each poet had a distinct style and outlook.

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