Roy Campbell était un poète et un satiriste sud-africain. T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas et Edith Sitwell voyaient en lui l'un des meilleurs poètes de l'entre-deux-guerres, mais on le lit rarement aujourd'hui. Certains critiques littéraires estiment que sa liaison avec une idéologie d'extrême droite et sa volonté de s'opposer aux lettrés influents de son époque ont nui à sa réputation. Wikipedia
“The frost stings sweetly with a burning kiss
As intimate as love, as cold as death.”
"The Sisters," lines 13-14
Adamastor (1930)
"Tristan da Cunha," lines 97-103
Adamastor (1930)
"Home Thoughts in Bloomsbury," lines 1-4
Adamastor (1930)
“South Africa, renowned both far and wide
For politics and little else beside.”
The Wayzgoose, lines 3-4 (1928)
“Our spirits leaped, hosannas of destruction,
Like desert lilies forked with tongues of fire.”
"To a Pet Cobra," lines 23-24
Sons of the Mistral (1926)
"Horses on the Camargue," lines 41-48
Adamastor (1930)
"On Some South African Novelists," lines 1-4
Adamastor (1930)
