The Intellectuals and the Masses. Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939, Paperback/John Carey

Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic establishments when it was first published in 1992.