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  1. n. The four poets Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W H Auden, and Cecil Day-Lewis, who shared certain left-wing views and produced important works in the 1930s.

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  1. A blend of the four poets' names; coined by Roy Campbell in Talking Bronco (1946). (Wiktionary)

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  • “This cabal provoked Roy Campbell's joke about the "MacSpaunday" school: a joke that was a source of embarrassment (and rage, given Campbell's open sympathy for fascism) while simultaneously furnishing a near guarantee of immortality.”

    A Nice Bloody Fool

  • “In a once-famous attempt to get the whole set into one portmanteau term, which was Roy Campbell’s coinage of MacSpaunday to comprehend the names of Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, and Cecil Day-Lewis, Upward was omitted altogether (as was his friend and closest collaborator, Christopher Isherwood).”

    The Captive Mind

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