In 1938, American poet Ezra Pound published <i>Guide to Kulchur</i>, a book so radically different from his earlier writing that readers might not have believed that it was written by the same firebrand aesthetician who had advocated in 1913 that poets go in fear of abstractions…
By bringing Italian primary sources and new approaches to the cultural project of Mussolini's regime to bear on Ezra Pound's prose work (including unpublished material from the Pound Papers and untranslated periodical contributions), this book shows how Pound's modernism changed…
Reveals changes in Ezra Pound's prose writing resulting from his excitement over Mussolini's use of Italian cultural heritage to build and promote the modern Fascist state. Drawing on unpublished archival material and untranslated periodical contributions, the author delves into…
In 1938, American poet Ezra Pound published <i>Guide to Kulchur</i>, a book so radically different from his earlier writing that readers might not have believed that it was written by the same firebrand aesthetician who had advocated in 1913 that poets go in fear of abstractions…
Reveals changes in Ezra Pound's prose writing resulting from his excitement over Mussolini's use of Italian cultural heritage to build and promote the modern Fascist state. Drawing on unpublished archival material and untranslated periodical contributions, the author delves into…
By bringing Italian primary sources and new approaches to the cultural project of Mussolini's regime to bear on Ezra Pound's prose work (including unpublished material from the Pound Papers and untranslated periodical contributions), this book shows how Pound's modernism changed…