and in February 1939 published Flowering
Rifle, a book-length poem filled with praise of Franco and condemnation of
the Spanish Republic.

When World War II broke out in September 1939, Campbell denounced Adolf Hitler and
Nazi Germany and returned with his family to Britain. After serving for a time
as an
air raid warden Roy Campbell was able to enlist in the British army despite his
age
and physical condition. A lengthy period spent shuttling between army camps in
Wales
and Scotland finally ended when he was sent to East Africa in 1943, only to be
invalided out of the service in April 1944.

Campbell returned to England and worked as a government clerk before being offered
employment by the British Broadcasting Corporation at the end of the war. In the
late 1940s and into the 1950s, Campbell was a producer forthe BBC before moving
one
final time to Sintra, Portugal. While Campbell had found Franco's ties to Nazi
Germany in the late 1930s increasingly distasteful the authoritarian Salazar regime
ruling Portugal at mid-century was to him endurable.

In his final years Campbell turned more and more to literary translation, producing
English versions of The Poems of St. John of the
Cross (1951), Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
(1952), and two novels of Antonio d'Eça de Queiroz (Cousin Basilio in 1952, The City and the
Mountains in 1955). In 1951, he published his second volume of
autobiography, Light on a Dark Horse, later finding
time for a North American lecture tour in 1953 and a 1954 visit to South Africa
to
receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Natal.

Roy Campbell died on April 23, 1957, in an automobile accident near Setúbal,
Portugal,