![]() Aude n, and Cecil Day-Lewis = Mac / sp /aun / day - get it? For a start, there are the other three components of 'Macspaunday' (a derogatory epithet coined by pro-Fascist writer Roy Campbell for this set of largely left-wing poets): Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W. What of those other writers and poets? What might one say about them? Auden could be a dominant, some would say a domineering figure. ![]() ![]() Hence, some 45 years after "first looking into Auden's Poems", this projected series of posts about those who have ended up - fairly or unfairly - in Auden's shadow. Samuel Hynes: The Auden Generation (1977) I'd had a chance to look at some of the other poems in the book and, while I didn't understand everything I was reading (still don't, for that matter), I understood enough for them to stay with me, keep nagging at me, get under my skin against my will. It enraged me! How dare he speak so flippantly of so wonderful a writer! 'His private lust' indeed! How could he know? I went around fulminating about the cheek of 'modern' poets who dared to criticise their elders and betters for weeks afterward. Parted the coarse hanged soldier from the don. ![]() ![]() Something to do with violence and the poor. Kept tears like dirty postcards in a drawer įood was his public love, his private lust ![]()
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