but defended himself
by explaining to his father that "university lectures
interfere very much with my work."

Campbell plunged into a bohemian literary life, acquiring literary friends including
William Walton, the Sitwells, and Wyndham Lewis. He met and married (in 1922)
Mary
Margaret Garman, a young beauty no less independent-minded than himself; they
soon
became the parents of daughters Teresa (Tess) and Anna. His first substantial
work,
a poem entitled The Flaming Terrapin, was written in
the loft of a Welsh cowshed early in the couple's marriage and published in 1924.

In 1925, Campbell returned to Durban to help found the journal Voorslag as a vehicle to help rid southern Africa of what he saw as its
smug and parochial world view. This effort failed, and upon his return to England
Roy Campbell published The Wayzgoose, a South African
Satire. The Wayzgoose didlittle for
Campbell's reputation, but his following collection of poems, Adamastor, published by Faber, was well received critically.

By the end of the 1920s, Campbell's attitude toward Bloomsbury and the British
intelligentsia in general had grown increasingly critical, and in 1931, after
publishing The Georgiad, an anti-Bloomsbury poetic
diatribe, Roy and Mary Campbell left England for the Mediterranean, settling first
in Provence and by 1935 in Spain, where they were received into the Catholic Church.

The Campbells were living in Toledo, Spain, when the Spanish Civil War erupted in
the
summer of 1936, and Roy's witnessing the murder of Catholic priests and nuns at
the
hands of militiamen of the Spanish Republic provoked the final break between Roy
Campbell and conventional British literary leftism. Campbell became ever more
outspoken on behalf of Francisco Franco and the cause of the rebelling Spanish
Nationalists,