Auden Group

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The Auden Group is the name given to a group of writers active in the 1930s that included W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, Christopher Isherwood, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Stephen Spender.

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MacSpaunday was a term used to describe a core group of poets noted in the 1930s, as closely aligned. For the most part were Oxford-educated, leftist, and bisexual, and who dedicated many of their early works to each other. The four members of this subgroup were:

Louis MacNeice ("MAC")
Stephen Spender ("SP")
Wystan Hugh Auden ("AU-N")
Cecil Day-Lewis ("DAY")

The term was coined by Roy Campbell as a derogatory term, but eventually it became a value-neutral term to describe the work of these poets. The term is somewhat synonymous with the phrase "the New Poetry of the 1930".