Nietzsche and Modern Literature

Nietzsche''s work has greatly influenced twentieth-century ideas and culture, but four European writers may be regarded as particularly ''Nietzschean''. Keith May discusses parallels between Nietzsche and these four authors, emphasizing order of rank in Yeats; the qualities of Rilke''s Angels as compared with those of the overman; Mann''s explorations of the spiritual territory beyond good and evi...