Roy Cambell - A Critical Biography

✍ Scribed by Peter Alexander

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Roy Campbell (1901-1957) was a South African Catholic writer. He converted to Catholicism after witnessing monks being massacred by communist forces during the Spanish Civil war. He was the first poet of note to publish a complete translation of Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal". Campbell served in the British Army during WWII. He made Portugal his home in later life, which is where he died in 1957. Campbell was a close friend of Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot, as well as an associate of J.R.R. Tolkien and George Orwell.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xiii

I The Making of a Poet 1901-1918 1
II Oxford and After - 1918-1924 19
III The Flaming Terrapin - 1924 36
IV Voorslag - 1924-1926 42
V South African Poems - 1926 56
VI England - 1927-1928 76
VII The Georgiad - 1929 87
VIII Provence - 1929-1933 100
IX Flowering Reeds - 1933 122
X Spain - 1934-1935 132
XI Toledo - 1935-1936 157
XII Wanderings - 1937-1942 171
XIII War - 1942-1944 192
XIV London - 1944-1952 203
XV The Last Years - 1952-1957 226
Postscript 241

Select Bibliography 243
Notes 249
Index 271

✦ Subjects

biography, south africa, poetry