Anyone who hung Stephen Spender upside down out of a window can't be bad. He also punched Louis MacNeice who promptly punched him back. They then bought each other drinks. Campbell is a good poet and you're quite right; his reputation suffered mainly because he picked the wrong side in the Spanish Civil War. You were supposed to pick Stalin's lot. The poems that you post are all better than anything produced by Spender or Day Lewis, the boring back half of the MacSpaunday pantomime horse. At least that is my opinion. Campbell's autobiography 'Light on a Dark Horse' is also a good read.
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