Guide to Kulchur

Guide to Kulchur

Author	Ezra Pound
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Publication date	1938

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 (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. ISBN 978-1-942954-38-5
• Hitchens, Christopher (April 2008). "A Revolutionary Simpleton". The Atlantic.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
• 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]. Guide to Kulchur. London: Peter Owen.
• Redman, Tim (1991). Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-37305-0