Last Division

TitleLast Division
Year for Search1959
AuthorsDelius, Anthony [Ronald St. Martin](1916-89)
Pagination78 pp.
Date Published1959
PublisherHuman & Rousseau
Place PublishedCape Town, South Africa
KeywordsMale 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.