Inscribed to famous author Uys Krige

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.

In the post-war period, Campbell continued to write and translate poetry and to lecture. He also joined other White South African writers and intellectuals, including Laurens van der Post, Alan Paton, and Uys Krige, in speaking out against apartheid. Campbell died in a car accident in Portugal on Easter Monday, 1957.

Though Campbell was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the First and Second World Wars, the accusation that he was a fascist, which was first promulgated during the 1930s, continues to seriously damage his reception, though some literary critics have attempted to rehabilitate his reputation.

Pages loose.
135mm x 185mm

R2,000