Ezra Pound’s

Guide to Kulchur

would be the author’s last lengthy prose venture in a literary career spanning six decades. In its fifty-eight chapters and postscript, the work encapsulates Pound’s many concerns at the time it was written: his economic and political agenda; his cultural, philosophical, poetic, and epistemological theories; and his occult and religious beliefs. All these informed Pound’s poem-in-progress,

The Cantos

, arguably the most important experimental work of Anglo-American literary modernism. In its self-consciously paratactic structure and radical inclusiveness,

Guide to Kulchur

displays some of the same intractable complexities that W. B. Yeats associated with

The Cantos

in 1927, likening it to a “Bach Fugue”: “No plot, no chronicle of events, no logic…

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Citation: Araujo, Anderson D.. "Guide to Kulchur". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 November 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=9055, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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