''Guide to Kulchur'' is a non-fiction book by the American poet

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

. 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 Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 194 ...

, 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.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)

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Guide to Kulchur
'. London: Peter Owen. * Redman, Tim (1991). ''Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{DEFAULTSORT:Guide to Kulchur 1938 non-fiction books Books by Ezra Pound Faber & Faber books