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Roy Campbell

Book information

Publisher
G.K. Hall & Co., Twayne Publishers
Year
1977
ISBN
0805762779
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13152654 bytes)
Series
Twayne's World Author Series - A Survey of the World's Literature
Edition
First
Pages
248\248
Topic
Literature
Time added
2023-08-21 17:33:12

Description

John Povey was born in London and educated in England and South Africa. He is at present Professor of English and Director of the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. 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.

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