On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Bloom is probably right. I'm reasonably sure that the "roubh beast" is
> Red, which Yeats hopes fascism will protect us from. But I can't support
> this. Too bad Doug can't qutote the text.
Ok, I just ordered a copy for $0.55 from Amazon. Doesn't anyone else on this list have a copy of this book?
Wow, Googling turned up this, from a 2007 NYT article:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/opinion/12mon4.html>
> As for his politics, Yeats was hardly a democrat, and he did not care much for “progress” — which makes him an odd choice for people who hope to turn Iraq into a vibrant democracy. Yeats was attracted to fascism, and he rebelled as a youth against the adults’ talk of progress by embracing its opposite. “I took satisfaction in certain public disasters, felt sort of ecstasy at the contemplation of ruin,” he once wrote.
Sheds fresh light on how crisis feeds the right, too.
Doug