‘Penny-wise…’: Ezra Pound’s Posthumous Legacy to Fascism

‘Penny-wise…’: Ezra Pound’s Posthumous Legacy to Fascism

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The article traces the history of Ezra Pound’s engagement with Fascist Wooden Kit 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 here poetic legacy but on other occasions, informs and coalesces into the latter.Keywords: Ezra Pound; Modernism; Fascism.