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Roy Cambell - A Critical Biography

By Peter Alexander

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1982
ISBN
0192117505
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22392657 bytes)
Edition
First
Pages
310\310
Topic
Literature
Time added
2023-08-21 17:56:13
biographyPoetrySouth Africa

Description

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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