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“Somehow it is considered impolite or indecorous to broach either topic in a social setting. The result, of course, is that the art of conversation either stagnates in the swamps of trivia or else descends to the level of the banal or the profane. Thankfully, this social stricture has been wholeheartedly ignored by the key literary figures of the past century. Writers as diverse as George Orwell and Graham Greene, G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Hilaire Belloc, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, and Evelyn Waugh and J. R. R. Tolkien, have spiced their lives, their conversation, their correspondence and their works with a healthy cocktail of the religious and the political. Few, however, have employed the spice of religion and politics as robustly or as candidly as Roy Campbell. It would, in fact, be true to say that Campbell, more perhaps than any other writer of his generation, is defined by his religion and his politics. This being so, any failure to understand Ca...mpbell’s religious or political stance is a failure to understand Campbell himself and, therefore, a failure to understand, or fully appreciate, his work.MoreLess
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