TY - BOOK AU - Carey, John, AU - : Carey, John, TI - The intellectuals and the masses : : pride and prejudice among the literary intelligentsia, 1880-1939 SN - 9780571169269 U1 - 820.900 CAR PY - 1992/// CY - London PB - : Faber and Faber KW - Literature KW - English literatures KW - Old English literatures KW - English & Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures KW - English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism KW - England KW - England -- Intellectual life -- History -- 19th century N2 - 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 ER -