Counter-Currents
  • Archives
  • Authors
  • T&C
  • Rss
  • DLive
  • Telegram
  • Gab
  • Entropy
  • Rss
  • DLive
  • Telegram
  • Gab
  • Entropy
  • Webzine
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
  • Donate
  • Paywall
  • Crypto
  • Mailing List
  • About
  • Contact
  • RSS
    • Main feed
    • Comments feed
    • Podcast feed

LEVEL2

  • Webzine
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
  • Donate
  • Paywall
  • Crypto
  • Mailing List
  • About
  • Contact
  • RSS
    • Main feed
    • Comments feed
    • Podcast feed
  • Archives
  • Authors
  • T&C
  • Rss
  • DLive
  • Telegram
  • Gab
  • Entropy

Tag: poetry

  • April 6, 2021 Amory Stern 1
    comments
    Print

    Mihai Eminescu:
    Romania’s Morning Star

    4,994 words

    Of peasant ancestry on his father’s side and boasting aristocratic (boyar) maternal roots, the Romanian poet, prose writer, and editorialist Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) had not put his modest inherited wealth to waste. Educated in the German language since childhood, Eminescu was culturally — if not always geopolitically — an enthusiastic Germanophile. (more…)

  • March 24, 2021 Kathryn S.
    Print

    “He Doesn’t Worry Too Much If Mediocre People Get Killed in Wars and Such”
    Tito Perdue’s The Smut Book & Cynosura

    Edmund Dulac, “The Buried Moon” from The Red Cross Fairy Book, 1916.

    4,430 words

    He had me at: “It was still the South, he knew it for a certainty when they passed an aged negro in overalls hobbling down along the highway toward no conceivable destination. The land was cursed. God, he loved it.” [1] Tito Perdue, author of the two novels here reviewed, The Smut Book and Cynosura, is a proud Southerner who has enjoyed skewering the sacred cows of these, our cursed times since he became a writer in the early 1980s. (more…)

  • March 23, 2021 James J. O'Meara
    Print

    Jalal El-Kadali’s Oyster Mountain

    1,095 words

    Jalal El-Kadali
    Oyster Mountain: Poems
    Charleston, WV: Nine-Banded Books, 2020

    To say that frogs turn
    Into princes is blasphemy
    Against Nature; Salvador Dali, however
    Was a painter who painted the things in his subconscious
    The world of his dreams; at least
    He didn’t expect anyone to believe that they were real

    At least he wasn’t telling lies to children  (more…)

  • January 25, 2021 Spencer J. Quinn 4
    comments
    Print

    If White Privileges Were Real

    413 words

    If White Privileges were real
    In our hearts and in our homes
    Our good-byes would be hellos
    And whispers would be bellows
    As thoughts distort and form against
    the glare of august fellows (more…)

  • December 30, 2020 Greg Johnson 13
    comments
    Print

    Remembering Rudyard Kipling
    (December 30, 1865-January 18, 1936)

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Kipling, 2020.

    3,244 words

    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’”

    (more…)

  • December 14, 2020 Andrew Hamilton 2
    comments
    Print

    The Plymouth 400 Symposium
    Robert Frost’s “Directive”:
    A Quintessential Yankee Poem by New England’s Quintessential Yankee Poet

    Puritan-descended poet Robert Frost in the 1910s, about 40 years old. Even his physiognomy was Yankee.

    1,853 words

    Discussing Robert Frost’s collection Steeple Bush in the New York Times upon its release in 1947, poet Randall Jarrell devoted the bulk of his review to quoting and summarizing just one poem, “Directive,” saying,

    Reading through Frost’s new book one stops for a long time at “Directive. . . .” There are weak places in the poem, but these are nothing . . . (more…)

  • November 30, 2020 Fullmoon Ancestry 6
    comments
    Print

    Heroic Road Songs

    Simon Marmion, The Eight Phases of the Song of Roland, ca. 15th century.

    1,863 words

    I sold my car before moving to Europe a few years ago. I had this car for several years and took it on various road trips across the US. During a few of these trips, I thought about The Song of Roland, the French poem from the 11th century. From tales of tragedy to stories of heroism, this epic poem has given me a lot to think about during the various road trips of my life. (more…)

  • November 19, 2020 Spencer J. Quinn 3
    comments
    Print

    I Knew You When Your Eyes Were Blue

    Paul Albert Besnard, The First Morning, 1881.

    341 words

    Your heart rate dropped precipitously
    Like the bottom of my mind at its apogee
    The angels were clamoring for your wings
    Despite what they say, they are terrible things
    Immeasurable for the dread in me
    But I love you unspeakably because (more…)

  • October 30, 2020 Greg Johnson 10
    comments
    Print

    Remembering Ezra Pound
    (October 30, 1885 to November 1, 1972)

    713 words

    “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.

    (more…)

  • October 12, 2020 Greg Johnson 2
    comments
    Print

    Remembering Aleister Crowley
    (October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947)

    Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

    424 words

    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.

    (more…)

  • October 2, 2020 Greg Johnson 1
    comments
    Print

    Remembering Roy Campbell
    (October 2, 1901–April 22, 1957)

    Roy Campbell

    1,562 words

    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 being consigned to the memory hole. (more…)

  • September 26, 2020 Greg Johnson 4
    comments
    Print

    Remembering T. S. Eliot:
    September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965

    231 words

    Thomas Stearns Eliot was one of the 20th century’s most influential poets, as well as an essayist, literary critic, playwright, and publisher. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, from old New England stock, Eliot emigrated to England in 1914 and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927.

    (more…)

  • September 14, 2020 Fullmoon Ancestry 3
    comments
    Print

    A Home of Their Own

    Antoni Piotrowski, The Batak Massacre, 1889.

    1,784 words

    I spent a long summer in Sofia, Bulgaria to explore the area and attend a few heavy metal concerts. During my time there, I took daily walks through the city center where I passed by stray dogs, ancient ruins, and historic monuments. Many of these monuments were dedicated to the countless individuals that lost their lives (more…)

  • July 27, 2020 Fenek Solère 9
    comments
    Print

    Angel of Avalon

    1,746 words

    “My favorite singer out of all the British girls that ever were.”

    — Robert Plant

    I first came across the name Sandy Denny on the liner notes of the classic Led Zeppelin IV. (more…)

  • June 13, 2020 Greg Johnson 1
    comments
    Print

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

    William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939

    170 words

    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.

    (more…)

  • May 19, 2020 Fenek Solère 2
    comments
    Print

    Owen Barfield’s History in English Words

    3,323 words

    Owen Barfield
    History in English Words
    New York: Doubleday & Company, 1926

    In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.

    — Owen Barfield (more…)

  • May 4, 2020 Fullmoon Ancestry 3
    comments
    Print

    Troubadours, Dissidents, & Legends

    1,492 words

    Sometimes the myths and legends of a person overshadow their real characteristics. Yet both aspects are important. Without the real-life person and his actions, the myths and legends of that person would never be created. (more…)

  • April 7, 2020 Fenek Solère 4
    comments
    Print

    The Future of the Past

    Praça Do Comércio

    2,483 words

    “John of Gaunt’s speech having shown that patriotic verse can be poetry of a high order, Pessoa in Mensagem showed this still to be true. Most of the poems also go beyond patriotism: those in which King Sebastian figures are metaphors for the religious quest, and those about the ordeals of the seafarers dramatize the poet’s inner perseverance.”

    — Jonathan Griffin (Introduction to Mensagem, 2007) (more…)

  • March 12, 2020 Margot Metroland
    Print

    Approaching D’Annunzio

    1,284 words

    Reviewing a story collection in 1925, an American critic compared Gabriele d’Annunzio’s influence on the Italian mindset to that of Rudyard Kipling in England. “[T]o understand him is to understand pre-war and immediately post-war Italy.” [1] That sort of remark is almost inaccessible to us today; when we think of the Great War, if we think of the Great War at all, we surely don’t automatically think of Kipling or d’Annunzio. That is one hurdle in approaching d’Annunzio today. (more…)

  • February 6, 2020 Kerry Bolton 8
    comments
    Print

    Australian Artists of the Right:
    Ian Mudie

    6,512 words

    The idea of “Australianity,” the uniqueness of Australia as a nation and new nationality, has its origins both in the pioneer labor movement and in the novelists, poets, and artists who saw vast possibilities in building a new civilization unencumbered by the decay of the Old World. The first saw their “socialism” in terms of a non-doctrinaire “mateship” that could forge a new “race” called Australians: an amalgam of the sundry peoples that had settled Australia from Europe, (more…)

  • February 2, 2020 Greg Johnson
    Print

    Remembering A. R. D. “Rex” Fairburn:
    February 2, 1904–March 25, 1957

    97 words

    Today is the birthday of New Zealand poet, essayist, Social Credit advocate, and social reformer Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn, another Artist of the Right. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this site.

    By Fairburn: (more…)

  • December 30, 2019 Greg Johnson 4
    comments
    Print

    Remembering Rudyard Kipling:
    December 30, 1865 to January 18, 1936

    3,063 words

    John Collier, Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1891

    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”

    (more…)

  • December 12, 2019 Quintilian 16
    comments
    Print

    The Unbearable Smallness of Modernity

    1,733 words

    There is an old joke that has been variously ascribed to everyone from Leopold von Ranke to Henry Kissinger to the effect that “campus politics are the most vicious of all because the stakes are so low.” Everywhere I go now it seems that campus-style politics predominate. Sure, we face an existential crisis in the West, but to what end? Our enemies now seem more worthy of our pity than of our contempt. Dr. Faust sold his soul to the Devil for unlimited power and Helen of Troy. (more…)

  • November 11, 2019 Fenek Solère
    Print

    The Unknown Soldier:
    Geoffrey Bache Smith, Tolkien’s Inspiration

    Geoffrey Bache Smith

    1,432 words

    Dark is the world our fathers left us,
    Wearily, greyly the long years flow,
    Almost the gloom has hope bereft us,
    Far is the high gods’ song and low:

    Sombre the crests of mountains lonely,
    Leafless, wind-ridden, moan the trees;
    Down in the valleys is twilight only.
    Twilight over the mourning sea;

    Time was when earth was always golden,
    Time was when skies were always clear;
    Spirits and souls of the heroes olden,
    Faint are cries from the darkness, hear!

    (more…)

  • October 30, 2019 Greg Johnson 1
    comments
    Print

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

    707 words

    “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.

    (more…)

  • October 12, 2019 Greg Johnson 2
    comments
    Print

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

    Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

    382 words

    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.

    (more…)

  • October 2, 2019 Greg Johnson 2
    comments
    Print

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

    Roy Campbell

    1,561 words

    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. (more…)

  • August 20, 2019 Juleigh Howard-Hobson 8
    comments
    Print

    Death & Rebirth: Three Poems

    438 words

    Rust Belt Hotel as Metaphor for America

    It’s abandoned, it’s been abandoned for
    About half a century now. Once it
    Was impressive — vaulted ceilings, tall
    Windows surrounded by a polished floor
    Of marble, an art deco lobby . . . Bit
    By bit, though, it all fell apart. Wall

    (more…)

  • April 11, 2019 Fenek Solère 2
    comments
    Print

    Hijacking Icons

    Dylan Thomas

    1,435 words

    Not for the proud man apart
    From the raging moon I write
    On these spindrift pages
    Nor for the towering dead
    With their nightingales and psalms
    But for the lovers, their arms
    Round the griefs of the ages,
    Who pay no praise or wages
    Nor heed my craft or art.

    — From Dylan Thomas, “In My Craft and Sullen Art”

    (more…)

  • February 8, 2019 Mihai Eminescu 1
    comments
    Print

    Lucifer

    Mihai Eminescu

    2,285 words

    Nineteenth-century Romanian poet and editorialist Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) studied in Bismarck’s Prussia, where he immersed himself in Schopenhauer and studied under Eugen Dühring. His essays attack liberalism, usury, immigration, and the prospect of Jewish civil rights in Romania. The tone of his philosophically-driven poems, which are modeled after the golden age of German Romantic poetry, ranges from endearing to brutal. Adored in Romania, but without much of a reputation outside of his own country, he was killed by medical malpractice at the age of 39. (more…)

1 2 3 … 6 Next›
Recent posts
  • Verdict on America

    Greg Johnson

    53

  • Irreconcilable Differences:
    The Case for Racial Divorce

    Greg Johnson

    9

  • Humorous Masquerades:
    The Rise of Anglo-Franco Melodrama

    Kathryn S.

    2

  • Tonight’s Livestream:
    Greg Johnson & Fróði Midjord on Network

    News Item

    1

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 337
    Greg Johnson, Millennial Woes, & Fróði Midjord

    Counter-Currents Radio

    6

  • Peak Redpill

    Nicholas R. Jeelvy

    17

  • Darwin & Conflict

    Morris van de Camp

    3

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 336
    Interview with Jared Taylor

    Counter-Currents Radio

    10

  • The Worst Week Yet:
    April 11-17, 2021

    Jim Goad

    16

  • The Searchers

    Trevor Lynch

    23

  • Fundraiser Update, this Weekend’s Livestreams, & A New Way to Support Counter-Currents

    Greg Johnson

    3

  • Two Nationalisms

    Nicholas R. Jeelvy

    45

  • A Robertson Roundup: 
    Remembering Wilmot Robertson
    (April 16, 1915 – July 8, 2005)

    Margot Metroland

    15

  • Remembering Dominique Venner
    (April 16, 1935 – May 21, 2013)

    Greg Johnson

    11

  • I’m Not a Racist, But. . .

    Jim Goad

    45

  • The Father

    Steven Clark

    5

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 335
    Dark Enlightenment

    Counter-Currents Radio

    11

  • Are We Ready For “White Boy Summer”?

    Robert Hampton

    33

  • Can the Libertarian Party Become a Popular Vanguard?

    Beau Albrecht

    17

  • Every Phoenix Needs Its Ashes

    Mark Gullick

    24

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 334
    Greg Johnson, Millennial Woes, & Fróði Midjord

    Counter-Currents Radio

    2

  • If I Were Black, I’d Vote Democrat

    Spencer J. Quinn

    14

  • The Silence of the Scam:
    The Killing of Dr. Lesslie

    Stephen Paul Foster

    7

  • Proud of Being Guilty:
    Fighting the Stigma of Lawfare in Sweden & Winning

    HMF Medaljen

    6

  • The Halifax Grooming Gang Survivor

    Morris van de Camp

    22

  • Get on the Right Side of the Paywall

    Greg Johnson

    12

  • The Worst Week Yet:
    April 4-10, 2021

    Jim Goad

    13

  • Forthcoming from Counter-Currents:
    Jonathan Bowden’s Reactionary Modernism

    Jonathan Bowden

  • Remembering Prince Philip

    Nicholas R. Jeelvy

    16

  • Remembering Jonathan Bowden
    (April 12, 1962–March 29, 2012)

    Greg Johnson

    7

  • Today’s Livestream:
    Ask Counter-Currents with Greg Johnson, Millennial Woes, & Frodi Midjord

    Counter-Currents Radio

  • Paywall Launch, Monday, April 12th

    Greg Johnson

    10

  • Galaxy Quest:
    From Cargo Cult to Cosplay

    James J. O'Meara

    13

  • Biden to Whites: Drop Dead!

    Spencer J. Quinn

    22

  • Politicians Didn’t Invent Racial Divisions

    Robert Hampton

    7

  • London: No City for White Men

    Jim Goad

    51

  • Republicans Should Stop Pandering to Blacks

    Lipton Matthews

    18

  • Quotations From Chairman Rabble
    Kenneth Roberts: A Patriotic Curmudgeon

    Steven Clark

    6

  • Remembering Emil Cioran
    (April 8, 1911–June 20, 1995)

    Guillaume Durocher

    5

  • An Interview with Béla Incze:
    The Man Who Destroyed a BLM Statue

    Béla Incze

    15

  • Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Six:
    G. W. Leibniz’s Will-to-Power

    Collin Cleary

    12

  • The Importance of Survival Skills

    Marcus Devonshire

    22

  • The Oslo Incident

    Greg Johnson

    2

  • Mihai Eminescu:
    Romania’s Morning Star

    Amory Stern

    1

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World & Me

    Beau Albrecht

    21

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 333
    Greg Johnson, Millennial Woes, & Fróði Midjord

    Counter-Currents Radio

    5

  • The Worst Week Yet:
    March 28-April 3, 2021

    Jim Goad

    18

  • Murder Maps:
    Agatha Christie’s Insular Imperialism

    Kathryn S.

    29

  • A Clockwork Orange

    Trevor Lynch

    21

  • Easter Livestream:
    Ask Counter-Currents with Greg Johnson, Millennial Woes, & Frodi Midjord

    Greg Johnson

    1

Recent comments
  • Not a helpful suggestion. A lot of good whites live in those urban "blue" areas, and cannot easily...
  • This is a brilliant idea. I was just chuckling over Jack Chick today. He's the first writer I read...
  • This is a good idea. Basically, whites can never relax around blacks. If you live near them, you...
  • I hope he successfully appeals as well. Chauvin will never get his life back. Let's hope he is...
  • Cops respond to incentives, and since 2014, there has been a marked stepdown in policing blacks,...
Editor-in-Chief
Greg Johnson
Our titles
  • White Identity Politics
  • Here’s the Thing
  • Trevor Lynch: Part Four of the Trilogy
  • Graduate School with Heidegger
  • It’s Okay to Be White
  • Imperium
  • The Enemy of Europe
  • The World in Flames
  • The White Nationalist Manifesto
  • From Plato to Postmodernism
  • The Gizmo
  • Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch’s CENSORED Guide to the Movies
  • Toward a New Nationalism
  • The Smut Book
  • The Alternative Right
  • My Nationalist Pony
  • Dark Right: Batman Viewed From the Right
  • The Philatelist
  • Novel Folklore
  • Confessions of an Anti-Feminist
  • East and West
  • Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Will Come
  • White Like You
  • The Homo and the Negro, Second Edition
  • Numinous Machines
  • Venus and Her Thugs
  • Cynosura
  • North American New Right, vol. 2
  • You Asked For It
  • More Artists of the Right
  • Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics
  • Rising
  • The Importance of James Bond
  • In Defense of Prejudice
  • Confessions of a Reluctant Hater (2nd ed.)
  • The Hypocrisies of Heaven
  • Waking Up from the American Dream
  • Green Nazis in Space!
  • Truth, Justice, and a Nice White Country
  • Heidegger in Chicago
  • The End of an Era
  • Sexual Utopia in Power
  • What is a Rune? & Other Essays
  • Son of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
  • The Lightning & the Sun
  • The Eldritch Evola
  • Western Civilization Bites Back
  • New Right vs. Old Right
  • Lost Violent Souls
  • Journey Late at Night: Poems and Translations
  • The Non-Hindu Indians & Indian Unity
  • Baader Meinhof ceramic pistol, Charles Kraaft 2013
  • Pulp Fascism
  • The Lost Philosopher, Second Expanded Edition
  • Trevor Lynch’s A White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
  • And Time Rolls On
  • The Homo & the Negro
  • Artists of the Right
  • North American New Right, Vol. 1
  • Some Thoughts on Hitler
  • Tikkun Olam and Other Poems
  • Under the Nihil
  • Summoning the Gods
  • Hold Back This Day
  • The Columbine Pilgrim
  • Taking Our Own Side
  • Toward the White Republic
  • Reuben
  • The Node
  • The New Austerities
  • Morning Crafts
  • The Passing of a Profit & Other Forgotten Stories
  • Gold in the Furnace
  • Defiance
Distributed Titles
  • Rss
  • DLive
  • Telegram
  • Gab
  • Entropy
Copyright © 2021 Counter-Currents Publishing, Ltd. Mihai Eminescu:
Romania’s Morning Star

Paywall Access





Please enter your email address. You will receive mail with link to set new password.