A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

Campbell, Roy

Biography

South Africa

Birth date: 1901-10-02

Birth location: Durban, South Africa

Death date: 1957-04-23

Roy Campbell was born in South Africa in 1901; he first gained acclaim as a poet and writer following the publication of The Flaming Terrapin in 1924. Campbell edited the literary magazine "Voorslag" alongside poet William Plomer. Campbell fought in both the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and died in a car accident in Portugal in 1957. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/roy-campbell

Education

Univeristy of Natal

News Items (72)

Wayward and wild (2004-09-10) | Poet
Poets from Abroad (1958-06-13) | Poet
From veld-lovers to freedom fighters (1980-11-21) | Poet
I remember it well (1971-06-27) | Mentioned Poet
A garbled message (1990-05-18) | Poet
African Poems of Thomas Pringle (1991-02-22) | Poet
Sunday 6 January: Radio 3 (1995-12-31) | Poet
The Climate of Taste (1953-10-02) | Mentioned Poet
From Slad to Spain and back (1999-11-26) | Poet
A Plea for Afrikaans (1936-11-21) | Poet
The World of Books (1930-04-20) | Poet
South African Bard (1957-06-28) | Mentioned Poet
Voices from South Africa (1949-07-01) | Poet
Mr Roy Campbell's Death (1957-04-25) | Poet
Roy Campbell honoured (1967-04-25) | Poet
Shaka's Bracelet for Zulus: Gift to New Museum (1957-03-08) | Poet
Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach (1984-04-26) | Mentioned Poet
A Literature in the Making (1935-05-31) | Poet
Winter of Discontent (1987-04-05) | Poet
A New Look in Writing (1960-05-31) | Poet
Bravo, Tauro! (1923-01-29) | Poet
New Poetry (1928-02-19) | Poet
New Poetry (1931-11-08) | Mentioned Poet
Faber & Faber (1930-05-18) | Mentioned Poet
The Ariel Poems (1930-10-26) | Poet
Tried Favourites (1930-11-30) | Mentioned Poet
Benn Books (1931-09-13) | Mentioned Poet
Benn Books (1931-09-27) | Poet
Books & Writers (1937-05-27) | Mentioned Poet
Round the Stands (1936-11-01) | Mentioned Poet
"A New Poet": Miss Sitwell's Review (1936-11-22) | Mentioned Poet
The Criticism of a Poet (1938-08-28) | Mentioned Poet
'Bound with Garlands' (1927-07-27) | Mentioned Poet
The Path of a Mystic (1951-06-10) | Translator
Roy Campbell (1957-04-28) | Mentioned Poet
The Flaming Terrapin (1958-10-12) | Mentioned Poet
Roy Campbell (1958-11-02) | Mentioned Poet
W. H. Allen Books and Prints (1960-05-15) | Mentioned Poet
Hazards of the Old Bailey (1961-05-28) | Mentioned Poet
The Flaws in Commitment (1961-06-11) | Mentioned Poet
A golden age of translators (1963-01-20) | Mentioned Poet
Poetry: the return to enjoyment (1963-10-20) | Mentioned Poet
Marcel Proust slept here (1965-06-20) | Mentioned Poet
Guide to the Modern Movement (1965-11-07) | Mentioned Poet
In their own write (1966-12-18) | Mentioned Poet
From Poet to Poet (1968-10-06) | Mentioned Poet
The Many Pleasures of Spleen (1968-12-08) | Mentioned Poet
The hare and the panthers (1969-06-08) | Mentioned Poet
Songs of the earth (1969-09-28) | Mentioned Poet
A farewell to Provence (1971-01-10) | Mentioned Poet
The romantic sceptic (1973-03-18) | Mentioned Poet
New Lamps for Old (1973-04-01) | Mentioned Poet
Chronicle of creative hatred (1973-07-29) | Mentioned Poet
Poet of the heart (1973-01-09) | Mentioned Poet
Swansea singer (1976-01-04) | Mentioned Poet
Lonrho: curb, don't kill (1976-07-11) | Mentioned Poet
My Oxford (1977-03-20) | Mentioned Poet
The Return of the Writers' Friend (1978-05-14) | Mentioned Poet
From firebrand to Poet Laureate (1980-03-23) | Mentioned Poet
In the beginning is the joke (1980-09-07) | Mentioned Poet
Richard Aldington's septic psyche (1981-07-12) | Mentioned Poet
A South African Bloomsbury basher (1982-04-11) | Mentioned Poet
Godfrey Smith (1991-06-09) | Mentioned Poet
Left with nowhere to go: the radicals who lost their chic (1991-12-22) | Mentioned Poet
Beginner's pluck (1992-06-28) | Mentioned Poet
Dead poet's society (1992-11-08) | Mentioned Poet
Saturday 6 January (1995-12-31) | Mentioned Poet
Choral Splendour (2016-07-06) | Mentioned Poet
A Tragic Poet: A Talking Bronco. By Roy Campbell (1946-06-09) | Poet

Events (4)

Related Works (30)

The Rare and the Beautiful: the lives of the Garmans (2004) (Mentioned Poet)
The Rare and the Beautiful: the lives of the Garmans (2004) (Work Author)
Poets in South Africa: An Anthology (1958) (Poet)
The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse (1989) (Poet)
Black Writers from South Africa: Towards a discourse of liberation (1989) (Mentioned Poet)
African Poems of Thomas Pringle (1989) (Poet)
African Poems of Thomas Pringle (1989) (Work Author)
Afrikaans: Its Origin and Development (1936) (Mentioned Poet)
Afrikaans: Its Origin and Development (1936) (Work Author)
Adamastor (1930) (Poet)
Adamastor (1930) (Work Author)
The Wayzgoose. (1928) (Poet)
The Wayzgoose. (1928) (Work Author)
A Book of African Verse, selected and introduced by Guy Butler (1959) (Poet)
South African Poetry. A New Anthology, with a Foreword by Roy Campbell (1948) (Poet)
Winter of Our Discontent (2008) (Mentioned Poet)
Winter of Our Discontent (2008) (Work Author)
The Flaming Terrapin (1924) (Poet)
The Flaming Terrapin (1924) (Work Author)
The Wayzgoose (1928) (Poet)
The Wayzgoose (1928) (Work Author)
The Georgiad (1931) (Poet)
The Georgiad (1931) (Work Author)
Adamastor (1930) (Poet)
Adamastor (1930) (Work Author)
Flowering Reeds (1933) (Poet)
Flowering Reeds (1933) (Work Author)
Talking Bronco (1946) (Poet)
Talking Bronco (1946) (Work Author)

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