Guide to Kulchur

POUND, Ezra.

Published by Peter Owen, London 1952, 1952

About this Item

Condition of Hardback Book and Dustjacket: Very good clean firm copy. Very slight age browning. photo attached The Guide to Kulchur, first published in 1938, is one of Ezra Pound's most stimulating books. As might be expected, this is no ordinary Baedeker of the arts, no conventional tour of familiar landmarks and highspots, but an iconoclastic revision of the cultural (in the broadest sense) curriculum. In a sequence of short, pungent chapters, Pound covers the whole territory of "kulchur" from the Chinese philosophers to modern poetry, from music to economics as he discovered it for himself in a lifetime of reading, looking, and listening. "This book," he says in the foreword, "is not written for the over-fed. It is written for men who have not been able to afford a university education or for young men, whether or not threatened with universities, who want to know more at the age of fifty than I know today, and whom I might conceivably aid to the object." Here we have Pound the teacher, and he is a good one; whatever he touches comes alive for the student. Long-accepted wrong judgments are rudely exposed. Neglected writers are given their due. Essences are defined and separated from what is superficial. The reader is challenged to explore new areas, reinterpret history, and radically rethink the bases of his own tastes. Seller Inventory # 1109

Bibliographic Details

Title: Guide to Kulchur

Publisher: Peter Owen, London 1952

Publication Date: 1952

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good