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, the book examines 2,500 years of cultural history, beginning with the Analects of Confucius. The first chapter was published in Milan in June 1937 as a pamphlet, Confucius/Digest of the Analects, by Giovanni Scheiwiller.
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." Lewis later rejected fascism.
Publication details
- Pound, Ezra. Guide to Kulchur. London: Faber & Faber.
Works cited
- Araujo, Anderson. A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur. Clemson University Press.
- Moody, A. David. Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man and His Work. II: The Epic Years 1921–1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Pound, Ezra . . London: Peter Owen.
- Redman, Tim. Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Category:Books by Ezra Pound
Category:Faber & Faber books