Light on a Dark Horse, An Autobiography, 1901-1935

Roy Campbell (1901-1957) was a South African Catholic writer. He converted to Catholicism after witnessing monks being massacred by communist forces during the Spanish Civil war. He was the first poet of note to publish a complete translation of Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal". Campbell served in the British Army during WWII. He made Portugal his home in later life, which is where he died in 1957. Campbell was a close friend of Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot, as well as an associate of J.R.R. Tolkien and George Orwell.