knowledge and remained capable ofnmuch finer shades of thought and feeling.nThe role Campbell’s feither played innhis life was immense and not merely thendominant father/repressed son syndromenportrayed in textbooks. Accordingnto Alexander, Campbell’s fether wasnan industrious doctor who was availablenat any time, and who treated black andnwhite alike, a trait which “earned him thenundying love of the Zulu people.” Royntherefore lived in an environment wherenthe ideal of noblesse oblige on the part ofnthe whites toward the blacks, which liberalsnfind so impossible to appreciate,nwas practiced. For the rest of his Ufe,nCampbell would longfor a society whichnwas both hierarchically ordered and innwhich all classes would live in comity.nCampbell also possessed a deep-seatednadmiration for the energy, self-sacrifice,nand conservatism of the whites whonpioneered South Africa, men and womennwho built schools and harbors. Thisnwork ethic prevented Campbell firomnhaving sympathy with the union-dominatednwelfere state in Britain, which thenmore leisured, imperial Britons foundnmuch more acceptable.nAs so often happens, these youthfulnimpressions were submerged in the ladnwho sailed north to begin his studies atnOxford University. Though he was alwaysnan “outsider” (a crucial factor in hisnlife), Campbell very quickly became partnof the circle of bright young artists innpost-War England, which included hisnroommate William Walton, AugustasnJohn, Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley,nand Jacob Epstein. The tall, lean, strikinglynhandsome Campbell was capturednby Augustas John’s brush and by WyndhamnLewis’s transparent portrait of “ZulunBlades” in We Apes of God During thisnperiod of anarchic creativity and laxnmorality Campbell married his strongwillednand sensual wife Mary, and producednthe linguistically exuberant ThenFlaming Terrapin, a rambling allegoricalnpoem that earned him instantnacclaim, more because of the poem’s de­ncidedly un-Georgian vitality of languagenthan because of its somewhat muddlednideas.nKiding high on the success of ThenFlaming Terrapin, Campbell returnednto South Africa, hoping to become thenenfant terrible of letters and social criticism.nHere Campbell entered a more seriousnand sadder period of his life. Thenshort-lived journal Voorslag (“Whipcrack”)nwhich Campbell edited wasnperhaps modeled on the strident criticismnof Wyndham Lewis’s Blast, andnCampbell soon lost his popularity by castigatingnthe older generation for a tacitnpolicy of apartheid. Many critics see an”left-wing” Campbell during these years,none who contrasts with the later conservative;nbut the poet’s desire for a unifiednculture without an arrogant master classnlay at the root of his intemperate lashingnout at his elders. Thus it was no “contradiction”nthat the fine South Africannpoems of 1926 (e.g., “The Zulu Girl” andnFRA til Workn.Xccoriliii}; lo :in :ir(ic.it- in ifie (./jiciifidnTribune:nliiiiKitrs M .S.111 QiK’iilin prison luvc nonrigliitoprtAi-ntliringv;i(dR-dli rini.ilfn};ii.ir(.l.^. c’M’nwhik-IjkJii^ si tovx (.’!>. hi’jn};n.siri|i-.M.’jr(.’lu'(.l. or iisiii}; llu- [oilrl. :inIWIiiiil u.yts- nWi..nI S. Disiric’l Jiiilgi- S|ii.-ni.ir Willijnisn(lisnii.ssi’cl 11 .siiii liroii};li( hv llirciprisoiuTs.nKU inn (.•nipioyinrnl ol’ li-niiilon(‘orri'(‘lion.’iloll]i'(Ts:ii IlK’prisiMidiiJnoinvioLilc I’onsliluiional rifilil.sol in.’iii’ninnKiU’s.n( alilorni;! Ally. (n’li. Jolin V;iii Oi- .iiiipnSlid IIK’ riilin;; iva>)>ni/i’s :iiul prou-it’-nI’niployiiK’iU ri(;lil.-ol’woiiini in(.-orriili()ii:ilnliic’ililicvn•>li;iUMT pri;uy inUTi-.sts :in iiiiii;ili’nmay uw ,iri’. iis lias iii’i’n ri-iopii/inl li>’n,fnil};i’ Williams, ii-rl.iinly .s(-(i>iiilar Kin”Tristan da Cunha”) exhibit the sensuousnessnand sensitivity of Campbell at hisnbest.nIt was a dejected—^but not muchnwiser—Campbell who retamed to Englandnto seek his literary fortane anew. Henand Mary were invited to stay on the estatenof Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-nWest, two major figures in the Bloomsburynand Georgian circles who, thoughnhusband and wife, were contentedlynhomosexual. Within months. Vita hadnseduced Mary Campbell, whose adorationnfor Vita was in marked contrast tonthe older woman’s casualness: Vita wasncarrying on no less than five lesbian affairsnat the same time. Here again thencritics’ conventional wisdom sees an”contradictory” Campbell: the insecurenmasculinity and jealousy of Campbell,nand his feelings of rejection from literaryncircles (they argue), caused him duringnMary’s affefr to become paranoid and resentful,nleading on to further right-wingnextremism. Apparently it does not occurnLiBKKAL Cri/riRi: ]nnnllu’ I’lnplot ini’iii riiihis and siinriiyni'( IIK iriis iiu|ni.-sl ion.’Van di’Kanipsa id.nNi’xt. \f lu-t. thiTi-‘li hf pholo ivporliijifsnill I’/ciyhoy or I’fnUxiiixe on k’nulcnj{ii:ii'(.l.s wiilcliiii}; ihi’ slumi-r st:ilK iindn,i;i^};iiii}>. It I’crljinh hiMls ihi’ nuili’nslrippi’i’showsonUidii’s’iiii’liI :il IIIC’1(K’:LInpull.n^ ^ H 1 1nMay 1984n