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