ABSTRACT
Action Française, and the rest of the French radical Right, had little in the way of a practical political role in England. It did, however, have considerable influence, both literary and political, in certain literary circles. Maurras’s writings had produced literary and political theories that were logically connected in their view of the world, and so it is no surprise to find those English writers who were influenced by Maurras similarly mingling literary theory and political thought in their writings. This chapter starts with a short examination of Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton, before concentrating in detail on T.E. Hulme (who was influenced by Sorel as well as by Maurras) and T.S. Eliot.
