Guide to Kulchur
{{Short description|1938 book by Ezra Pound}}
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Guide to Kulchur is a non-fiction book by the American poet Ezra Pound. Published in London in July 1938 by Faber & Faber,Moody 2014, xvi. the book examines 2,500 years of cultural history, beginning with the Analects of Confucius.Redman 1991, 180. The first chapter was published in Milan in June 1937 as a pamphlet, Confucius/Digest of the Analects, by Giovanni Scheiwiller.Moody 2014, xvi, 247.
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."Pound 1966, 134; Moody 2014, 237. Lewis later rejected fascism.Hitchens 2008.
Publication details
- Pound, Ezra (1938). Guide to Kulchur. London: Faber & Faber.
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Works cited
- Araujo, Anderson (2018). A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur. Clemson University Press. {{ISBN|978-1-942954-38-5}}
- {{cite web |last1=Hitchens |first1=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Hitchens |title=A Revolutionary Simpleton |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/04/a-revolutionary-simpleton/306701/ |website=The Atlantic |date=April 2008 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200906021257/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/04/a-revolutionary-simpleton/306701/ |archive-date=6 September 2020 |url-status=live}}
- 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]. [https://archive.org/details/guidetokulchur0000unse 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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