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Kerry Bolton
Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2012
210 pages

hardcover: $35

paperback: $20

W. B. Yeats

Kerry Bolton

William Butler Yeats, 1865–1939

5,276 words

Editor’s Note:

To commemorate the birthday of William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865–January 28, 1939), we are publishing this expanded version of Kerry Bolton’s essay on Yeats, which forms chapter five of his book Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents. Read more …

Published: June 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocarcy, Benito Mussolini, book excerpts, commemorations, fascism, Kerry Bolton, literature, North American New Right, occultism, originals, Oswald Spengler, poems, poetry, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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George Orwell on W. B. Yeats as Occult Fascist

George Orwell

William Butler Yeats, 1865–1939

2,250 words

“W. B. Yeats” (1943)

One thing that Marxist criticism has not succeeded in doing is to trace the connection between “tendency” and literary style. The subject-matter and imagery of a book can be explained in sociological terms, but its texture seemingly cannot. Yet some such connection there must be. Read more …

Published: June 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, book reviews, cyclical history, egalitarianism, fascism, George Orwell, literature, occultism, poetry, reprints | Comments closed

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William Butler Yeats:
A Poet for the West

Vic Olvir

2,212 words

In saner times our great poets, writers, and philosophers expressed the feelings and ideas which came naturally from the race-soul. In these times those feelings and ideas are too “controversial” to be expressed freely, so where they cannot be suppressed outright, they are reinterpreted, obscured, and selectively anthologized by the alien arbiters of our culture. For no poet of our race has this been more true than for William Butler Yeats.