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Leben. Roy Campbell wurde als Sohn von Samuel George Campbell in Durban geboren und ist schottisch-irischer Abstammung. Schon als Zweijähriger lernte er die Sprache der Zulu, als Kind war er oft im Busch und in der freien Natur, die er so liebte, und hatte steten Kontakt zu den einheimischen Kindern und Jugendlichen, die ihn herzlich behandelten.
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, better known as Roy Campbell (2 October 1901 – 23 April 1957), was a South African poet, literary critic, literary translator, war poet and satirist. Born into a white South African family of Scottish descent in Durban, Colony of Natal, Campbell was sent to England to attend Oxford University.
Roy Campbell wurde als Sohn von Samuel George Campbell in Durban geboren und ist schottisch-irischer Abstammung. Schon als Zweijähriger lernte er die Sprache der Zulu, als Kind war er oft im Busch und in der freien Natur, die er so liebte, und hatte steten Kontakt zu den einheimischen Kindern und Jugendlichen, die ihn herzlich behandelten. Das ...
Family Life. He was married to Mary Margaret Garman and had two daughters. Associated With. He voiced his support for Francisco Franco. This unpopular political stance resulted in the exclusion of his poetry from many literary anthologies.
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18. Apr. 2024 · Notable Works: autobiography. “The Flaming Terrapin”. Roy Campbell (born Oct. 2, 1901, Durban, S.Af.—died April 22, 1957, near Setúbal, Port.) was a poet whose vigorous extrovert verse contrasted with the uneasy self-searching of the more prominent socially conscious English poets of the 1930s.
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26. Feb. 2017 · Campbell and his family moved to the south of France and he proceeded to attack the decadence and dissolution of the Bloomsbury Group in a long satire, The Georgiad (1931), modeled on Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad. As Roger Scruton wrote in 2009, the Bloomsbury Group’s ideals “amounted, for Campbell, to a refusal to grow up. The new elite ...
Roy Campbell was a South African poet whose literary production was mostly published between the First and the Second World Wars. According to T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell, Campbell was one of the best British poets of the 20th century but his strong character, his original South-African condition and, above all, his Spanish Catholic conversion in 1935 and support to ...
