68-573: Roy Campbell may refer to: Roy Campbell (poet) (1901–1957), South African poet Roy Campbell Jr. (1952–2014), American jazz musician Roy Edward Campbell (born 1947), American Catholic bishop Roy H. Campbell , British computer scientist Colonel Roy Campbell , character in the Metal Gear series of video games See also [ edit ] Roy Campbell-Moore (born 1951), Scottish dancer and choreographer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
136-476: A gentleman with a park!" Campbell later wrote, "My father heard of our marriage too late to stop it; he was naturally hurt that, being a minor, I had not consulted him about it, since he had always been so good to me and always sent me any money I asked for when I was hard up. My excuse was, and still is, that I was taking absolutely no risks at all of not getting married to this girl." Due to his decision to marry without paternal consent, Campbell forfeited, for
204-599: A bus in Tottenham Court Road ... When we saw Roy for the first time. He got off the bus when we did and made for the Eiffel Tower Restaurant in Charlotte Street . We were quite intrigued, he was so good-looking, so foreign, who could he be? Once inside the restaurant he went straight to a table where a golden-haired girl, Iris Tree , was sitting alone, evidently waiting for him." When they formally met
272-640: A car accident in Portugal on Easter Monday , 1957. Though Campbell was considered by T. S. Eliot , Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the First and Second World Wars , the accusation that he was a fascist, which was first promulgated during the 1930s, continues to seriously damage his reception, though some literary critics have attempted to rehabilitate his reputation. According to Campbell, his family history had been traced out, despite their differing views about
340-486: A complete stranger?!" Campbell later admitted that he felt deeply uncomfortable during the visit and knew that the eyes of the Garman family were always watching him. At first, desperate for them to accept him, Campbell refused to drink wine during meals. In time, however, he was regularly escaping the anxiety of the visit by going on drunken binges at the local pub. In response, Dr. Garman tried to persuade his daughter to call off
408-483: A creative writing critique group inspired by the Inklings called "WhInklings". The Mythopoeic Society , with its journal Mythlore , is a literary organization devoted to the study of mythopoeic literature, particularly the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, founded by Glen GoodKnight in 1967 and incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1971. Another journal that focuses on The Inklings
476-417: A few weeks later Roy found himself confronted with "the most beautiful woman I had ever seen." The homeless Campbell was invited by Mary and Kathleen to move in with them. Their daughter, Teresa Campbell, would later write, "In their different ways they were trying to escape convention. As my mother was always saying when she was about eighty – 'Roy and I were the first Hippies ' and she seemed very proud of
544-456: A literary magazine with the ambition to serve as a "whiplash" (the meaning of the title in Afrikaans ) on South African colonial society, which he considered "bovine". Before the magazine was launched, Campbell invited William Plomer to help with it, and late in the year, Laurens van der Post was invited to become the magazine's Afrikaans editor. Voorslag was, according to Joseph Pearce, one of
612-510: A local public house , The Eagle and Child , familiarly and alliteratively known in the Oxford community as The Bird and Baby, or simply The Bird. The publican, Charlie Blagrove, let Lewis and friends use his private parlour for privacy; the wall and door separating it from the public bar were removed in 1962. During the war years, beer shortages occasionally rendered the Eagle and Child unable to open and
680-570: A lukewarm and half-hearted acceptance of his parents' Presbyterianism towards an inarticulate agnosticism." In February 1919, Cambell's ship steamed into the estuary of the Thames River during a particularly cold winter. Campbell later wrote, "It was certainly by far the widest river I had ever seen... Then warehouses and other phantasmal buildings loomed out of the most on the distantly converging banks. Slowly, forests of masts and banks began to appear, and moving almost imperceptibly we berthed in
748-570: A piece of corrugated iron on the beach, and suffered fearful sympathetic pain. At dawn, as the storm abated, he went out and shot a snipe , and grilled it on a spit for Mary's breakfast." Campbell completed his first long poem, The Flaming Terrapin , a humanistic allegory of the rejuvenation of man, at Ty Corn in early September 1922. After making several copies "in a beautiful, printed hand", Campbell mailed one to his Oxford friend Edgell Rickword . Rickword replied, "I have waited three days and three nights to be able to tell you quite coolly that
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884-576: A quarter as much." While the Irish War of Independence was then taking place Campbell expressed support for Irish Republicanism in letters to his parents, despite his descent from Orangemen . During this time, Campbell discovered the poetry of T. S. Eliot , which was then all the rage. He also attempted to write imitations of the poetry of both Eliot and Paul Verlaine . Campbell took as his subject "the gloomy railway stations he had seen on his recent journeys to and from Scotland ." Campbell, however,
952-524: A suspicious officer telephoned the Campbell family's home. Roy's sister Ethel picked up the phone and confirmed that Roy was only 15. Ethel later wrote "This was the first that any of us knew of his having run away from school and joined up. At the end of 1917 Campbell left school with a third degree matriculation pass, which was the lowest possible pass mark. He registered at Natal University College , intending to read English, physics , and botany . His heart
1020-459: A time, his generous parental allowance. During a later conversation in Durban, Dr. Campbell said to his son George about Roy, "I suppose the silly little ass has married someone worthless." George responded, "No fear! He has married someone a thousand times too good for him! I would have done the same if I could." Campbell would have two daughters with Mary: Anna and Teresa. After their wedding,
1088-478: A wealthy self-made businessman, and Jean Hendry of Eaglesham . In his memoirs, Campbell alleges: "My maternal grandmother was a Gascon from Bayonne and though I never met her, I inherit through her my love of bulls, and of Provençal , French , and Spanish poetry ." According to Campbell, his Dunnachie ancestors were "Highland Jacobites who fled Scotland" after the Jacobite rising of 1745 , but returned after
1156-511: A week. To escape the notoriety caused by the brawl, Roy and Mary Campbell moved from London to Ty Corn, a small converted stable three miles from the village of Aberdaron in Gwynedd , Wales. The Campbells stayed at Ty Corn for more than a year and lived off a diet of homegrown vegetables, sea-birds' eggs, and game birds that Roy poached with a small shotgun. These were supplemented by fish, lobsters and crabs purchased from Welsh fishermen. During
1224-503: Is Journal of Inklings Studies (founded in 2011). In Swan Song (1947) by Edmund Crispin a discussion takes place between Professor Gervase Fen and others in the front parlour of the Eagle and Child. "There goes C. S. Lewis", said Fen suddenly. "It must be Tuesday." The Late Scholar (2013) by Jill Paton Walsh is a sequel, set in 1951, to the Lord Peter Wimsey novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Wimsey, now 17th Duke of Denver,
1292-575: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Roy Campbell (poet) Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell , better known as Roy Campbell (2 October 1901 – 23 April 1957), was a South African poet, literary critic , literary translator, war poet and satirist . Most of his adult life was spent in Europe. Born into a white South African family of Scottish descent in Durban , Colony of Natal , Campbell
1360-551: Is indeed", said Peter. "But he lunches with a group of cronies … Right, on with our overcoats and it's off to the Bird and Babe." Three of the best-known members of the Inklings – Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams – are the main characters of James A. Owen 's fantasy series, The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica . (Warren Lewis and Hugo Dyson are recurring minor characters throughout the series.) The existence and founding of
1428-516: Is investigating a mystery in the fictional St Severin's College, Oxford with his friend Charles Parker, now an assistant chief constable. "Right," said Peter. "How about lunch, Charles? We could spin out to the Rose Revived." [on the Thames about 7 miles from Oxford] Charles looked bashful. "I have heard," he said carefully, "that there is a pub in Oxford at which C. S Lewis often takes lunch." "There
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#17328550027481496-424: Is possible that Campbell went through a bisexual phase at Oxford, Alexander makes no effort to justify the claim and chooses not to name the two men alleged to have been the objects of Campbell's devotion. He merely cites Campbell's friend Robert Lyle as the source of the allegations. Lyle, however, states categorically, 'I know nothing of any homosexual attachments.' This being so, in the absence of any evidence to
1564-457: The East India Docks cracking the first film of ice I had ever seen." After a brief tour of London on a donkey cart, Campbell took a train to Scotland to meet his maternal grandfather James Dunnachie, who gave his grandson £10, with which Campbell replaced the books he had lost at the beginning of the voyage. According to his daughter Anna Campbell Lyle, Roy had grown up where "everything
1632-690: The Great Highland bagpipes and Highland dancing . Educated at Durban High School , Campbell counted literature and the outdoor life among his first loves. He was an accomplished horseman , hunter, and fisherman. In 1916, as the First World War was raging in Europe, a 15-year-old Campbell ran away from home and enlisted in the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force . He used the assumed name of Roy McKenzie and claimed to be an 18-year-old from Southern Rhodesia . However,
1700-803: The Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War caused him to be labelled a fascist by influential left-wing literati, further damaging his reputation as a poet. He served in the British Army during Second World War and briefly attended meetings of The Inklings during this period, where he befriended C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien . In the post-war period, Campbell continued to write and translate poetry and to lecture. He also joined other White South African writers and intellectuals, including Laurens van der Post , Alan Paton , and Uys Krige , in speaking out against apartheid . Campbell died in
1768-745: The Spanish Civil War , by "that valiant and fine writer, my friend, the late George Orwell ." Campbell's paternal ancestors were Scottish Covenanters and members of Clan Campbell , who left the Gàidhealtachd of Scotland after their Chief , the Earl of Argyll , was defeated in battle by the Royalist Marquess of Montrose in 1645. The Campbell family then settled as part of the Plantation of Ulster at Carndonagh , in Inishowen , County Donegal. During
1836-497: The 1747 Act of Indemnity . Also according to Campbell, his maternal grandfather, James Dunnachie, was an acquaintance of poets Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson and corresponded with Mark Twain . In 1889, Campbell's parents moved to Natal, where his father established a successful medical practice. Dr Campbell often travelled long distances on foot to treat patients and, in an unprejudiced approach rare in colonial South Africa, would treat both black and white patients. He also
1904-544: The Campbells moved into a rented flat above the Harlequin Restaurant. As Dr. Samuel Campbell had cut off his son's allowance, Roy and Mary made ends meet by pawning their wedding gifts. Campbell also earned some money as a literary critic . At first, Campbell suffered from jealousy and once dangled Mary out of the window after she expressed an attraction to a female friend. Campbell later told an exaggerated version of
1972-544: The English Elizabethan and Romantic poets. Among his early fruitful contacts were C. S. Lewis , William Walton, the Sitwells , and Wyndham Lewis. He also began to drink heavily, and continued to do so for the rest of his life. Campbell left Oxford for London in 1920, where he immediately sank into what he later dubbed "that strange underworld ... known as Bohemia ." Nina Hamnett later recalled, "Roy Campbell
2040-407: The Inklings. Tolkien's fictional Notion Club (see " Sauron Defeated ") was based on the Inklings. Meetings were not all serious; the Inklings amused themselves by having competitions to see who could read the notoriously bad prose of Amanda McKittrick Ros for the longest without laughing. The name was associated originally with a society of Oxford University 's University College , initiated by
2108-460: The Zulu people as "highly intellectual" and highly-skilled conversationalists, claiming that conversation "is the only art they have". His daughter, Teresa Campbell, said he respected the Zulu people "tremendously" and attributed Roy's skill at social mixing to this childhood influence. Cambell was also influenced by Scottish culture via his father's Scottish coachman Dooglie, who taught the Campbell sons
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2176-583: The centuries when they lived in Donegal, the ancestors of the poet were "bog-trotting Scotch-Irish peasants who were tenants of the Kilpatricks, the squires of Carndonagh." Many of the Campbell men were said to have been talented fiddlers . The living standards of the Campbell family improved drastically around 1750, when one of the poet's ancestors eloped with "one of the Kilpatrick girls", whom he had met "while he
2244-462: The child's birth for several days. Campbell was named Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell for an uncle and christened in a Presbyterian ceremony. According to Campbell, his first memory was of his Zulu nurse maid, Catherine Mgadi, who wheeled him further than usual on their morning outing to a site overlooking the Indian Ocean. Mgadi told him that the Indian Ocean was " Lwandhla ", the word for
2312-414: The contrary one should perhaps assume that Campbell's friendships at Oxford were platonic." Despite his reading, Campbell failed the Oxford entrance examination. Reporting this to his father, Campbell took a philosophical stance, telling him that "university lectures interfere very much with my work", which was writing poetry. His verse writing was stimulated by avid readings of Nietzsche , Darwin , and
2380-408: The courage of my wife in fighting through this fearful night, when the wind blew the tiles off our roof and the rain and wind rushed in headlong." In later years, Teresa was fond of telling friends how she had been born in a Welsh stable and always added, "I weighed ten pounds, my mother nearly died having me, I was so big." According to Peter Alexander, "Campbell, unable to be present, sheltered behind
2448-684: The editor of the South African literary magazine Voorslag , Campbell returned to England and became involved with the Bloomsbury Group . He ultimately decided that the Bloomsbury Group was snobbish, promiscuous, nihilistic and anti-Christian. He lampooned them in a mock-epic poem called The Georgiad , which damaged his reputation in literary circles. His subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism in Spain and vocal support for Francisco Franco and
2516-521: The fact." In the evenings, the three would lie arm in arm next to the fire, and Campbell would read his poetry aloud and would entertain both women with stories of his adventures in Provence and in the South African bush. For a time, van Dieren continued to visit the Garman sisters ' flat, but eventually he admitted defeat. Kathleen was the mistress and muse of the married American sculptor Jacob Epstein , who
2584-506: The first bilingual literary journals published in South Africa. The Inklings The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis at the University of Oxford for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949. The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction and encouraged
2652-743: The first whiff of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and I only came back to see what made them clear off in such a hurry, which I soon found out." After a brief stay with his grandfather, Campbell travelled to Oxford University , where he hoped to pass the entrance exams to Merton College . During the spring of 1919, Oxford was filled with returning veterans of the Great War. Painfully shy, Campbell hid himself away in an attic room and read voraciously. He later wrote, "Never before, or since, have I done so much reading as I did at Oxford. Had I taken an ordinary course in English for three years, I would not have read
2720-416: The future publisher of his memoir The Seven Pillars of Wisdom , Jonathan Cape urging Cape to "Get it – it's great stuff." By mid-1923, the Campbells had moved back to London at the urging of Mary's mother, who felt that Ty Corn was no place to raise a child. In their flat at 90 Charlotte Street, Campbell received a letter from Cape, who was requesting to see The Flying Terrapin . Campbell hand delivered
2788-755: The group instead met at other pubs, including the White Horse and the Kings Arms. Later pub meetings were at The Lamb and Flag across the street, and in earlier years the Inklings also met irregularly in yet other pubs, but The Eagle and Child is the best known. The Marion E. Wade Center , at Wheaton College, Illinois , has holdings on the Inklings Owen Barfield , C. S. Lewis , J. R. R. Tolkien and Charles Williams . These include letters, manuscripts, audio and video tapes, artwork, dissertations, periodicals, photographs, and related materials. Wheaton also has
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2856-478: The incident and said he had dangled Mary out the window to show her that "any marriage in which the wife wears the pants is an unseemly farce." Meanwhile, Jacob Epstein was still convinced that Campbell was sexually involved with both Mary and her sister Kathleen. In order to gather proof of the orgies that he believed were taking place in the Campbells' flat, Epstein hired the Harlequin Restaurant's waiters to spy on them. When Campbell learned of Epstein's actions, he
2924-507: The manuscript the following day. When Cape read the poem, he decided to publish it. It was published in May 1924. The Flaming Terrapin established Campbell's reputation as a rising star and he was favourably compared to T. S. Eliot 's recently released poem The Waste Land . His verse was well received by Eliot himself, Dylan Thomas , Edith Sitwell and many others. Returning to South Africa with Mary in 1925, Campbell started Voorslag ,
2992-523: The nature of both. There were no rules, officers, agendas, or formal elections." As was typical for university groups in their time and place, the Inklings were all male. Readings and discussions of the members' unfinished works were the principal purposes of meetings. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet , and Williams's All Hallows' Eve were among the novels first read to
3060-417: The poem is magnificent. One doesn't often find anything to overwhelm one's expectations but this did completely... I know of no one living who could write in such a sustained and intense poetical manner... Lots of things might have weighed against my liking it (particularly your philosophy of sweat) but the sheer fecundity of images ravished my lady-like prejudices ... Good luck and ten thousand thanks for such
3128-452: The porthole and into the sea. "Campbell," according to Pearce, "looked on as his cherished volumes of Shakespeare , Milton , Keats , Dryden , Pope , and Marlowe ," disappeared over the side. In the absence of his books, Campbell spent much of the voyage on the fo'c'sle, watching "all those strange and beautiful creatures that inhabit the majestic southern extremity of our continent." Pearce also maintains that "Campbell's love affair with
3196-521: The protection of the Guanches or natives of the Canaries." According to Pearce, "Campbell recalled that the heart was so magnified by the glass and the spirits in which it was kept that he laughed in a superior way and swore it was the heart of a rhino or hippo . His skepticism suggests an antagonism towards Catholicism , but was also indicative of a general disillusionment with Christianity. He had moved from
3264-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roy_Campbell&oldid=1252555083 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
3332-586: The same time, one of the finest fellows I ever met in my life." Even though Campbell preferred ragtime and the Border ballads to classical music, the two friends shared an intense hatred for learning Greek. Instead, they routinely neglected their studies "so they could enjoy endless nights on the town consuming large quantities of beer." According to Pearce, "... claims in a biography of Campbell by Peter Alexander that Campbell had 'at least two short-lived homosexual affairs' at this time may well be unfounded. Although it
3400-494: The sea in the Zulu language , which Cambell later described as his first word. After the birth of his younger brother, Neil Campbell, Roy was increasingly left in the care of Mgadi and he would later cite her as an early influence. Campbell also played regularly with boys from among the Zulu people. According to biographer Joseph Pearce , Cambell was influenced by these different cultures and by colonialism . Campbell later described
3468-577: The sea, thus far expressed only in poetically imagined theory, was consummated by the cascading waters off the Cape ." When the Inkonka docked at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands , Campbell went ashore with one of the ship's apprentices, who was a Roman Catholic . While inside Las Palmas Cathedral , Campbell was shown several holy relics, including the heart of Bishop Juan de Frías , "who sacrificed himself to
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#17328550027483536-415: The then undergraduate Edward Tangye Lean around 1931, for the purpose of reading aloud unfinished compositions. The society consisted of students and dons, among them Tolkien and Lewis. When Lean left Oxford in 1933, the society ended, and Tolkien and Lewis transferred its name to their group at Magdalen College . On the association between the two 'Inklings' societies, Tolkien later said "although our habit
3604-480: The wedding, saying that she was "marrying a dipsomaniac ". Campbell's daughter Anna later wrote, "All their good sense was useless. My parents already considered themselves eternal partners." On 11 February 1922, Campbell and Mary Garman were married in the Church of England parish at Wednesbury , near her family's estate. As Campbell owned no formal suit, he had purchased one second-hand for 12 shillings. Mary, however,
3672-526: The winter, Roy had to carry one hundred pounds of coal every week from the road, which was two miles away. Roy and Mary would read poetry aloud to each other by firelight. They were, as Campbell later wrote, living "under the continual intoxication of poetry". During their stay in Ty Corn, the Campbells' first daughter, Teresa, was born, with the assistance of a Welsh midwife , on the night of 26 November 1922. Campbell later wrote, "I have not seen anything to equal
3740-466: The writing of fantasy . The best-known, apart from Tolkien and Lewis, were Charles Williams , and (although a Londoner) Owen Barfield . The more regular members of the Inklings, many of them academics at the University, included: Less frequent visitors included: Guests included: "Properly speaking," wrote Warren Lewis, "the Inklings was neither a club nor a literary society , though it partook of
3808-465: Was "violently jealous" and certain that Campbell was sleeping with both sisters. In the winter of 1921, just two months after they had met, Campbell accompanied Mary and Kathleen to their family's estate at Oakeswell Hall , near Wednesbury , Staffordshire, to spend Christmas with the Garman family. Upon their arrival, Kathleen Garman said to her father: "Father, this is Roy, who's going to marry Mary." Horrified, Dr. Garman cried, "My eldest daughter?! To
3876-434: Was about seventeen and very beautiful indeed. He had the most wonderful grey eyes with long black eyelashes. He spoke with an odd gruff voice and a funny accent ." Campbell gifted Hamnett a book of poems by Arthur Rimbaud and kept her amused by singing what she later termed " Kaffir Songs" in the Zulu language . In response, Hamnet's friend Marie Beerbohm gave Campbell the nickname "Zulu", which stuck fast. Mary Garman
3944-410: Was beautiful, and like paradise," and then he came to "this funny little country full of fog, with no wild animals, very little sun and no mountains – he had a really mystical feeling about mountains... So he got a funny thing about England. I think he was terribly anti- Anglo-Saxon . He had a passion for Celts ." Campbell later wrote in his memoir Broken Record , "My ancestors cleared out of Britain at
4012-758: Was born in Durban in 1861. In 1878 he travelled to Edinburgh to study medicine. He graduated with honours in 1882 and completed postgraduate work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris; he also studied ear, nose and throat ailments in Vienna . In 1886, Campbell's father returned to Scotland to take his M.D. and to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons . While in Scotland, Dr Campbell married Margaret Wylie Dunnachie, daughter of James Dunnachie, of Glenboig , Lanarkshire,
4080-462: Was dissatisfied with the results and burned his manuscripts. He later said, "My early poems were so fragile and attenuated that Verlaine is robust in comparison." While attending Greek tutorials, Campbell struck up a friendship with the future classical composer William Walton , who shared his enthusiasm for the poetry of Eliot and the Sitwells , and for the prose writings of Wyndham Lewis . Campbell later described Walton as "a real genius, and, at
4148-579: Was fiddling at a ball given by the Squire." Campbell's grandfather, William Campbell, emigrated to the Colony of Natal with his family aboard from Glasgow in 1850. William Campbell adapted well to life in Africa and built the breakwater that still forms the foundation of the great North Pier in Durban harbour. He also built a large and very successful sugar cane plantation. Campbell's father, Samuel George Campbell,
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#17328550027484216-538: Was generous to patients who could not afford to pay. "Sam Joj", as he was called, was remembered kindly by the Zulu people of Natal. Roy Campbell was the third son of Samuel and Margaret Campbell, was born in Durban , Colony of Natal , on 2 October 1901. At that time, Roy's father was on active service as a major with the Natal Volunteer Medical Corps in the Second Boer War and did not learn of
4284-423: Was horrified and demanded that Campbell change back into his usual clothing. Mary wore a long black dress with a golden veil, not to be eccentric but simply because she had nothing else. During the ceremony, when Campbell knelt before the altar, he exposed the holes in the soles of his shoes to the whole congregation. In response, Mary's former nanny was heard to lament, "Oh dear, I always thought Miss Mary would marry
4352-666: Was not in his studies, however. The war was still raging and Campbell intended to enlist as soon as he was old enough, and hoped to attend the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . Campbell left the Union of South Africa in December 1918 aboard the Inkonka , a 2,000-ton tramp steamer . Almost as soon as the ship lost sight of land, the third mate entered Roy's cabin and, objecting to the large number of books, threw all of them, as well as Roy's painting and drawing materials, out of
4420-573: Was outraged. One evening when Epstein and Kathleen Garman were dining together at the Harlequin, Campbell and Epstein engaged in a brawl on the floor above the restaurant. Both men stopped fighting at the shouts of Kathleen. During a 1944 conversation inside the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford , Campbell told the story of the brawl to C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and claimed to have put Epstein in hospital for
4488-427: Was sent to England to attend Oxford University . Instead, he failed the entrance exam and drifted into London's literary bohemia . Following his marriage to the bohemian Englishwoman Mary Garman , he wrote the well-received poem The Flaming Terrapin which brought the Campbells into the highest circles of British literature . After experiencing both shunning and social ostracism for supporting racial equality as
4556-455: Was then living in a flat near Regent Square with her sister Kathleen . The sisters regularly paid court to young artists and musicians and often hosted bohemian parties. Although Mary was already intimately involved with the Dutch composer Bernard van Dieren , Campbell caught her attention immediately when she first saw him. Mary later wrote, "My sister Kathleen ... and I were riding on the top of
4624-411: Was to read aloud compositions of various kinds (and lengths!), this association and its habit would in fact have come into being at that time, whether the original short-lived club had ever existed or not." Until late 1949, Inklings readings and discussions were usually held on Thursday evenings in C. S. Lewis's rooms at Magdalen. The Inklings and friends also gathered informally on Tuesdays at midday at
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