Penny-wise…’:
Ezra Pound’s Posthumous Legacy to Fascism
Keywords:
Ezra Pound, Modernism, FascismAbstract
The article traces the history of Ezra Pound’s engagement with Fascist politics and its contemporary influence on the far-right in America, Britain and Italy. It seeks to explore a political legacy of Pound’s, which is sometimes strangely at odds with his poetic legacy but on other occasions, informs and coalesces into the latter.