Guide to Kulchur (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ezra Pound
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Literary history
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture, Literature, Education or educators, Art or artists, Writing, Criticism, Economics, Learning or scholarship, Thought or thinking
Form and Content
From 1934 to 1935, James Laughlin, the founder of New Directions Press and Ezra Pound’s publisher in the United States, lived in Rapallo, Italy, where he studied at Pound’s informal “Ezuversity” for several months. In his affectionate and perceptive memoir, Pound as Wuz: Essays and Lectures on Ezra Pound (1987), Laughlin recalls a man who was moving toward the manic intensity that blinded him to the horrors of the Fascist regimes he admired but who still retained the singular humor, style, and vision that makes so much of his opinionated...
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