About the Author

The Author: Nicholas Meihuizen was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in 1953. He is Professor of English at the University of Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where he has taught for 21 years. He has published numerous articles, essays and reviews on Anglo-Irish poetry (especially Yeats) and South African poetry in various journals and books. His book, Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space was published in 1998. Current research includes an extended examination of the classical influences in Luis Vaz de Camões and the South African poet Roy Campbell.