Guide to Kulchur
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
- Pound, Ezra (1938). Guide to Kulchur. London: Faber & Faber.
References
Works cited
- Araujo, Anderson (2018). A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur. Clemson University Press. ISBN 978-1-942954-38-5
- Hitchens, Christopher (April 2008). "A Revolutionary Simpleton". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 6 September 2020.
- 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. ISBN 978-0-19-921558-4
- Pound, Ezra (1966) [1938]. Guide to Kulchur. London: Peter Owen.
- Redman, Tim (1991). Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-37305-0
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Ezra Pound
- A Lume Spento (July 1908)
- A Quinzaine for this Yule (December 1908)
- "Ballad of the Goodly Fere" (1909)
- Ripostes (1912)
- "In a Station of the Metro" (1913)
- Cathay (1915)
- "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)
- The Cantos (1917–1968)
- Cultural references in The Cantos
- The Spirit of Romance (1910)
- Des Imagistes (1914)
- ABC of Reading (1934)
- Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935)
- Guide to Kulchur (1938)
- Radio broadcasts, 1941–1945
- If This Be Treason (1948)
- William Wadsworth (maternal ancestor)
- Thaddeus C. Pound (grandfather)
- Dorothy Shakespear (wife)
- Omar Pound (son)
- Olivia Shakespear (mother-in-law)
- Olga Rudge (partner)
- Mary de Rachewiltz (daughter)
- Boris de Rachewiltz (son-in-law)
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- Brunnenburg
- CasaPound
- Julien Cornell
- Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound
- Hugh Kenner
- Ezra Pound (Lewis)
- Famous Last Words
- Modernism
- St. Elizabeths Hospital
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