Is Campy inspired by Watership Down?

[Thlayli-rah]

I think he somewhat is, or could just be coincidence. For anyone that's read the book, you could tell me that poetry and stories are a strong part of rabbit culture. Of course he could just be the poetic, writer character that Quetza had planned.

[SpeedyD]

Probably not, simply because Campy evolved into his current status as a poet, before he was just some drooler. Plus, the poetic styles of Watership rabbits and Campy are plenty different.

[Rachel]

I've been considering that there's a symbolic connection between Poetry, sexuality, and Oscar Wilde in relation to Campy.

Like Wilde, Campy is a Poet, Bisexual (and possibly kinky. ;3) there's really not much more I could add, but there's plenty of other writer's that'd share this common link. (Psychology for Writers' has it that under the profile for a Writer, it says "Tends to be homosexual", so it's something of a stereotype, I'd imagine.)

[QuetzaDrake]

I've never read Watership Down, ever. I heard it was pretty bad... or maybe just the cartoon movie? I dunno.

[Istanbul]

Watership Down was actually pretty good. The movie, somewhat less so, but the book is worth a read.

[SpeedyD]

Book was excellent, very long, detailed; I love the rabbit culture that exists. You just need to really research British English. I would have loved for it to be 'americanized' because British English is so weird (to my American brain, that is), but I guess the purist fans (which is a huge group with this book) would reject. Movie was meh, if you like the book I would see it, had a nice original song by Garfunkel in it. There was some 90s cartoon on TV though, heard that was unsurprisingly terrible. But would highly recommend the book.

[Readasaur]

Just my humble opinion, but I thought the cartoon series wasn't bad either.