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CAMPBELL, ROY ), South African poet, the son of Senator Campbell of Natal, was educated at Oxford. After roaming about at sea and wandering through Italy, Campbell pub lished in 1924 his poem, The Flaming Terrapin. With a joyful exuberance, the poet, in lyrical narrative (which combines both vision and rhetorical power), exalts the instinctive vital force that brings forth intelligent human effort out of apathy and disillusion ment. In the Wayzgoose (1928), the same vigour and glow ap pear but with less poetic detail. The poem is a violent satire on the wayzgoose, an annual assembly of South African would-be artists, poets, novelists and thinkers.

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