Guide to Kulchur

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]

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

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