Last Division
Title | Last Division |
Year for Search | 1959 |
Authors | Delius, Anthony [Ronald St. Martin](1916-89) |
Pagination | 78 pp. |
Date Published | 1959 |
Publisher | Human & Rousseau |
Place Published | Cape Town, South Africa |
Keywords | Male author, South African author |
Annotation | Poem. The first section briefly describes a technological eutopia and asks the question, “What happened to that curious lot/Of legislators in that Southern Land?” (5). The first Canto that follows is a satire on the stupidities of the human race and ends by focusing on South Africa and apartheid. The rest of the poem is a satire on South African politics. One of the politicians is Satan and takes all of them to Hell. |
Holding Institutions | CaOTU |
Author Note | The South African author (1916-89) was a journalist who was prohibited from the precincts of Parliament for a year. |
Full Text | 1959 Delius, Anthony [Ronald St Martin] (1916-89). The Last Division. Cape Town, South Africa: Human & Rousseau. 78 pp. CaOTU Poem. The first section briefly describes a technological eutopia and asks the question, “What happened to that curious lot/Of legislators in that Southern Land?” (5). The first Canto that follows is a satire on the stupidities of the human race and ends by focusing on South Africa and apartheid. The rest of the poem is a satire on South African politics. One of the politicians is Satan and takes all of them to Hell. The South African author was a journalist who was prohibited from the precincts of Parliament for a year. |