Pylon school

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 273 words | Copyright

Pylon school, a nickname for the group of younger left-wing poets of the 1930s, chiefly Auden, Day-Lewis, MacNeice, and Spender, alluding to the rather self-conscious use of industrial imagery in their work. Spender's poem ‘The Pylons’ was published in 1933.

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