MacSpaunday

Japanese: MacSpaunday
MacSpaunday

…While studying at Oxford, he advocated a new literary movement along with S. Spender, Day-Lewis, and L. MacNeice. They were commonly known as the Auden Group, or, for fun, MacSpaunday (a compound word of the four men's names), and led the literary climate of the 1930s in opposition to Eliot and other writers of the 1920s. They expressed a left-wing political orientation, and some even joined the Communist Party, in reaction to the conservative and right-leaning modernists of the 1920s. …

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Japanese:

…オックスフォード在学中から,S.スペンダー,デイ・ルイス,L.マックニースらとともに新しい文学運動を唱導した。彼らは俗に〈オーデン・グループ〉,あるいは戯れに〈マックスポーンデイMacSpaunday〉(4人の名前の合成語)と呼ばれ,エリオットらの20年代作家に対して,30年代の文学的風土をリードするにいたった。彼らは,とかく保守的で右傾気味であった20年代のモダニストに反発して,政治的左翼志向をあらわにし,共産党に入党する者もいた。…

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