Roy Campbell
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell (2 October 1901 – 23 April 1957), better known as Roy Campbell, was a South African poet and satirist. Despite being lavishly praised at the beginning of his career in the 1920s, when his writings included topics such as attacks on racism in South Africa, Campbell's subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism and his poetic attacks against the leftist Bloomsbury Group, Sigmund Freud, the Communist Soviet Union, and the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, caused him to become a polarising figure during his lifetime and to be disliked by leftists.
Campbell led an adventurous life and his "vigorous extrovert verse contrasted with the uneasy self-searching of the more prominent socially conscious English poets of the 1930s."[1]
Some of his poetry and writings appeared in Oswald Mosley's newspapers and journals both before and after the war. Despite Campbell's strong rejection of Oswald Mosley's efforts to recruit him into the British Union of Fascists, Campbell has sometimes been labeled as a fascist and left out of poetry anthologies and college courses. However, currently not even leftist Wikipedia labels him as a fascist.
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- ↑ Roy Campbell https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roy-Campbell
