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.
References
Works cited Araujo, Anderson (2018). A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur. Clemson University Press.
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. Pound, Ezra (1966) . Guide to Kulchur. London: Peter Owen. Redman, Tim (1991). Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.