Guide to Kulchur

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Ezra Pound (1885–1972), c. 1920

Guide to Kulchur is a non-fiction book by the American poet Ezra Pound. Published in London in July 1938 by Faber & Faber,[1] the book examines 2,500 years of cultural history, beginning with the Analects of Confucius.[2] The first chapter was published in Milan in June 1937 as a pamphlet, Confucius/Digest of the Analects, by Giovanni Scheiwiller.[3]

A supporter of Benito Mussolini, Pound congratulates his friend Wyndham Lewis in the book for having "discovered" Adolf Hitler. "I hand it to him as a superior perception," he wrote. "Superior in relation to my own discovery of Mussolini."[4] Lewis later rejected fascism.[5]

Publication details

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  • Pound, Ezra (1938). Guide to Kulchur. London: Faber & Faber.

References

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  1. ^ Moody 2014, xvi.
  2. ^ Redman 1991, 180.
  3. ^ Moody 2014, xvi, 247.
  4. ^ Pound 1966, 134; Moody 2014, 237.
  5. ^ Hitchens 2008.

Works cited

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  • Araujo, Anderson (2018). A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur. Clemson University Press. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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  • Moody, A. David (2014). Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man and His Work. II: The Epic Years 1921–1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Pound, Ezra (1966) [1938]. Guide to Kulchur. London: Peter Owen.
  • Redman, Tim (1991). Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).