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bibliography
Adamastor (1930)
Broken Record (1934)
Burns (1932)
The Flaming Terrapin (1924)
Flowering Reeds (1933)
Flowering Rifle: A Poem from the Battlefield of Spain (1936)
The Georgiad - A Satirical Fantasy in Verse (1931)
The Gum Trees (1931)
Light on a Dark Horse: An Autobiography (1952)
Lorca (1952)
The Mamba's Precipice (1953)
Mithraic Emblems (1936)
Nativity (1954)
Poems (1930)
Poems of Baudelaire: A Translation of Les Fleurs du Mal (1946)
Pomegranates (1932)
Portugal (1957)
Songs of the Mistral (1938)
Talking Bronco (1939)
Taurine Provence (1932)
Voorslag (1926-1927)
The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire (1928)
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basic biography
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie "Roy" Campbell was born in Durban, South Africa on the 2 of October, 1901.
He spent his earliest years enjoying the outdoors, and loved fishing. Eventually he was sent to
Durban High School where he did quite well. He picked up the Zulu language as he grew up, and loved
traversing the South African landscape by foot, horse or swimming and was quite the adventurer.
At around eighteen years of age, he headed for Oxford University where he began to write poetry and
study. He picked up all sorts of ideas whilst there, and became particularly fond of the poetic form.
A few years later, in 1924, he married one of the infamous Garman Sisters, Mary Margaret. She was an
over-the-top exhibitionist and of artistic temperment. Despite their rather unique relationship, they
had two children -- Tess and Anna. Unfortunately, Mary tended to bring out the less wholesome anttributes of
Campbell.
Campbell loved moving, so in 1935 the family uprooted from the UK and headed for Spain, where he became
interested in Catholicism. He ended up siding on the "wrong side" of the Spanish Civil War, fighting with
the Nationalist Army, but he felt deeply on the subject. Campbell believed strongly in strength and
masculinity, which was unusual for a poet. His ideas tended to be on the Fascist side, which earned him
much emnity from various sources. He also had some odd Religious concepts as well, which he was equally
interested in. Nevertheless, Campbell was fiercely loyal to his own nationality and fought in World War
II in the British Army.
After having lived for some time back in his native South Africa, Campbell moved to the UK for a short
period after the war, where he met Tolkien and Lewis and spent several Inklings related meetings with
them. He was never part of the group for very long, but he was a very important poet at the time, and
Tolkien was particularly impressed at the meetings he did attend. Campbell then moved to Portugal where he
spent his last five years until a tragic car accident killed him in 1957.
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