<P> The connections between individual writers, as friends and collaborators, were, however, real . Auden and Isherwood produced three plays and a travel book . Auden and MacNeice collaborated on a travel book . As undergraduates, Auden and Day - Lewis wrote a brief introduction to the annual Oxford Poetry . Auden dedicated books to Isherwood and Spender . Day - Lewis mentioned Auden in a poem . But the whole group never operated as such . </P> <P> "MacSpaunday" was a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco (1946), to designate a composite figure made up of the four poets: </P> <Ul> <Li> Louis MacNeice ("Mac") </Li> <Li> Stephen Spender ("sp") </Li> <Li> W.H. Auden ("au - n") </Li> <Li> Cecil Day - Lewis ("day") </Li> </Ul> <Li> Louis MacNeice ("Mac") </Li>

Irish poet and playwright of the auden group