The story
A blend of the four poets' names; coined by Roy Campbell in Talking Bronco (1946).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
MacSpaunday
Today it means: 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. Full definition →