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A Guide to Kulchur' (1938) is a book by Ezra Pound. It was dedicated to Basil Bunting and Louis Zukofsky, "strugglers in the desert".

Published in London in July 1938 by Faber & Faber, 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.

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  • Pound, Ezra (1938). Guide to Kulchur. London: Faber & Faber.


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