This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By Roy Campbell. Price, $40. Pp 312, with several illustrations. Henry Regnery Co., 114 W Illinois St, Chicago, Ill 60610, 1952.

William B. Bean, MD, Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(4):589-590.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The paradoxes that go into existence with its numerous and vexing vicissitudes, as well as its contradictions and varying polarizations, sometimes result in a person's seeming to be a multitude of contradictory people rather than a single consistent coherent person. Such a one certainly was Roy Campbell whose multifaceted character is enlightened in his autobiographical excursion entitled Light on a Dark Horse. A single quotation which I remembered led me to look up some of Roy Campbell's poetry which includes some very good and some not very good writing. His striking critique of criticism I thought most effective.

You praise the firm restraint with which they write— I'm with you there of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse?

Campbell who was raised in Durban in Africa and at Natal descended from Scots and Scots-Irish ancestors. The days of the founding of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?