English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1604 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Louis MacNeice and the Thirties Poets
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The idea
Journalists grouped Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis and Stephen Spender as the "Auden Group," a label W-7 calls essentially a myth; the four were in one room only once in the thirties. MacNeice, born in Belfast, was a poet, playwright and BBC producer.
In practice
A group that rarely met.
Where people slip
The Auden Group history rests on one source.
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