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Word: quadrumvir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Oxford poetical quadrum virate of Spender, Auden, Lewis & MacNeice. For more than a decade these prestige-puffed young Lefties have been writing about their life and times with the authority of youth and political desperation. Most of them have had a high old time at it. But the quadrumvir who seems to have enjoyed himself least and to have done his work most painstakingly is Poet Spender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Sep. 14, 1942 | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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