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John Collier, Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1891

Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. For an introduction to his life and works, see the following articles on this site.

William Pierce, “Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Poet” (French translation here)
Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem’”
Margot Metroland, “The Conundrum of the Kipling: Rudyard Kipling, 1865–1936”
William Solniger, “The White Man’s Burden, 2013”

Published: December 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, originals, poems, Rudyard Kipling | 5 Responses

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On the Passing of Leonard Cohen

Leo Yankevich

Leonard Cohen

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My first encounter with a Leonard Cohen song was in October of 1982. I had invited a Polish exchange student to a party in my fraternity house room. He came with an acoustic guitar and played and sang Cohen’s “Suzanne,” a song from the 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen. It was my third year at Alliance College. I was struck by the sublime beauty of the song. Read more …

Published: November 11, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Leo Yankevich, Leonard Cohen, North American New Right, originals, popular music | Comments closed

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Remembering Ezra Pound:
October 30, 1885 to November 1, 1972

Greg Johnson

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“A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.” — Ezra Pound

One of the ongoing projects of the North American New Right is the recovery of our tradition. One does not have to go too far back before one discovers that every great European thinker and artist is a “Right Wing extremist” by today’s standards.

What is even more remarkable is the number of great 20th century figures who belong in our camp as well. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ezra Pound, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Remembering Aleister Crowley:
October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

Greg Johnson

Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

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Aleister Crowley was an English poet, novelist, painter, and mountaineer who is most famous as an occultist, ceremonial magician, and founder of the religion and philosophy of Thelema. But ironically Crowley’s supposed Satanism and Black Magic are far less frightening to most people than his politics. For Aleister Crowley was also a man of the Right.

Published: October 12, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, occultism, originals, political philosophy | Comments closed

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Remembering Roy Campbell:
October 2, 1901–April 22, 1957

Greg Johnson

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Roy Campbell was a South African poet and essayist. T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Edith Sitwell praised Campbell as one of the best poets of the inter-war period. Unfortunately, his conservatism, Nietzscheanism, and Catholicism, as well as his open contempt for the Bloomsbury set and his participation in the Spanish Civil War on the Fascist side have led his works to be consigned to the memory hole. Read more …

Published: October 2, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, poems, Roy Campbell | Comments closed

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The Eternal Recurrence Revived
Remnants of a Season:
The Collected Poems of Robert N. Taylor

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

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Remnants of a Season: The Collected Poems of Robert N. Taylor
Edited by Joshua Buckley and Michael Moynihan
Waterbury, Vt./North Augusta, S.C.: Dominion/Ultra, 2016

Beauty given physical substance is a magical thing. Robert Taylor’s poetical retrospective, Remnants of a Season, is as magical as they come. Read more …

Published: September 18, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, North American New Right, originals, poems, Remnants of a Season, Robert Taylor | Comments closed

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Remembering William Butler Yeats:
June 13, 1865–January 28, 1939

Greg Johnson

William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939

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William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, playwright, and politician, was born on this day in 1865. One of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century, Yeats’ life and work straddle the great divide between Romanticism and Modernism. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

In life and in art, Yeats rejected modern rationalism, materialism, and egalitarianism. He saw them as coarsening and brutalizing.

Published: June 13, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, Ireland, literature, North American New Right, W. B. Yeats | Comments closed

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John Everett Millais’ Isabella

Christopher Pankhurst

John Everett Millais, Self-Portrait

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If you think of the Pre-Raphaelites you will probably be put in mind of flame-haired women in medieval dress or perhaps the depiction of a scene from a biblical or mythological story. The aesthetic appeal of such paintings seems to derive from a pre-modernist craving for something formally beautiful in its own right, without any sense of remove or cynicism. And if you consider that the tail end of the Pre-Raphaelite movement preceded the emergence of Dada by only a few years then it really does seem as though the Brotherhood marked a final statement in the history of Western art. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art criticism, articles, Beowulf, Boccaccio, Charles Dickens, Christopher Pankhurst, Grayson Perry, Isabella, J. R. R. Tolkein, John Everett Millais, John Keats, North American New Right, originals, painting, Roberto Ferri, the Pre-Raphaelites, Thomas Gainsborough | Comments closed

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Absolutely Delightful:
Christina Finlayson Taylor’s Villanelles & Varia

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

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Christina Finlayson Taylor
Villanelles and Varia: Selected Poems 2004-2010
(revised and expanded edition)
West Union, West Virginia: The Red Salon, 2016

Contemporary poetry books are one of two sorts: they are part of the mass media po-biz machine, soaked in processed agenda and dripping with carefully honed correct thought . . . or they are not. Either way, very few of them are actually what you would describe as delightful. Read more …

Published: May 18, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Christina Finlayson Taylor, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, North American New Right, originals, Robert Taylor, Villanelles and Varia | Comments closed

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Maverick Among Placid Cows:
The Poetry of Joseph S. Salemi

Leo Yankevich

Peter Paul Rubens, Two Satyrs, 1618-1619

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Joseph S. Salemi was born in New York City in 1948 and grew up in Woodside, Queens. His grandfather, Rosario Previti, was a renowned Sicilian journalist, poet, and translator who rendered Edward FitzGerald’s version of the Rubaiyat into Italian, and who served as the American correspondent for the newspaper Don Giovanni in Messina, for which he wrote a popular series of satiric columns on the lifestyles and habits of Americans.