Edmund campion - evelyn waugh

Evelyn Waugh presented his biography of St.

Edmund Campion, the Elizabethan poet, scholar and gentleman who became the haunted, trapped and murdered priest as a simple, perfectly true story of heroism and holiness.

But it is written with a novelists eye for the telling incident and with all the elegance and feeling of a master of English prose.

From the years of success as an Oxford scholar, to entry into the newly founded Society of Jesus and a professorship in Prague, Campions life was an inexorable progress towards the doomed mission to England.

There followed pursuit, betrayal, a spirited defense of loyalty to the Queen, and a horrifying martyrs death at Tyburn.