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Description

1. xii, 480 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

1. "Roy Campbell (1902-57) led an unquiet life marked by numerous affairs (both real and imagined), brawls (he once attacked Stephen Spender on stage during a poetry recital), and assorted stunts (with the help of Dylan Thomas, he once ate a vase of daffodils in celebration of St. David's Day). It was also marked by numerous scandals, often concerning Campbell's relationship with Virginia Woolf and her Bloomsbury group, about whom he remarked in "The Georgiad": "Hither flock all the crowds whom love has wrecked / Of intellectuals without intellect / And sexless folk whose sexes intersect ... "" "Capturing the imagination of the English intelligentsia with his romantic background and controversial style, Campbell was acknowledged as one of the finest poets of his generation. Joseph Pearce's biography vividly recounts the story of Campbell's wonderfully romantic life, including his youth in South America, his dangerous sojourn in revolutionary Spain during World War II, the literary friendship he forged with figures such as C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and the Sitwells, and his and his wife Mary's eventual conversion to Roman Catholicism. In Pearce's judgement, Campbell's poetry was "both perplexing and challenging - yet no more so than the poet himself.""--Jacket.

Uniform title

1. Bloomsbury and beyond

Alternative title

1. Bloomsbury and beyond

Subject

1. Campbell, Roy, 1901-1957
2. Campbell, Roy, 1901-1957 > Friends and associates
3. Poets, South African > 20th century > Biography
4. South Africans > England > Biography
5. Bloomsbury group
6. England > Intellectual life > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Biographies

Contents

1. Out of Africa -- "Miss Pigtails" and "Blackstockings" -- A Zulu in Oxford -- Whirlwind -- A Stable Relationship -- The Muse Aflame -- Whiplash -- Bombast and Fire -- A Bloomsbury Affair -- Absolute Hell -- Breaking with Bloomsbury -- Vita Nuova -- Vita Brevis, Ars Longa -- The Apes of Wrath -- Friends and Enemies -- Family Affairs -- Farewell to Provence -- Spain -- The Son Ascendant -- Sacred City of the Mind -- Terror in Toledo -- "Bolshevik Binsted" -- Poet as Propagandist -- Flowering Rifle -- Surly Fascism -- Anti-Fascism -- "I'm Fighting for No Better World" -- Bucking Bronco -- Old Enemies and New Friends -- Cold Comforts -- To Catacombs Returning -- Humor and Humility -- Troopers of the Sun -- November Nights -- Tearing the Veil -- Postmortem.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Originally published under title: Bloomsbury and beyond. London : HarperCollins, 2001.

Bibliography (note)

1. "Bibliography of Campbell's principal works": p. [467]-468.
2. Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-465) and index.

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