As I recall Lewis was to begin with a Hitler fan. The Hitler Cult was a bit
of a U-turn. I don't remember the detail; I'm sure someone else does.

RE


>From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>    <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Pound / Wyndham Lewis / Fascism
>Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:23:30 -0400
>
>Wei,
>Where does the British writer Wyndham Lewis "fully endorse" fascism?
>Lewis
>explicitly states that he prefers the "muddle" of democracy; if memory
>serves (it has been almost 15 years since I read his novels, criticism, and
>polemical works) he makes this statement in The Art of Being Ruled.  His
>1939 book, The Hitler Cult, is hardly an endorsement of fascism.
>Tim Romano
>
>
>
>Wei claims:
> >
> > .... But Pound was the only major American literary figure (excepting
> > perhaps Lewis) who fully endorsed fascism.  While many  European
> > intellectuals were fleeing fascism (or supporting the underground, like
> > Sartre and Camus), Pound went to tremendous lengths to give his moral
>and
> > intellectual energy to propagating the fascist ideology.  No other
>American
> > or English literary figure went to the full level of commitment that
>Pound
> > did.  Even Martin Heidegger, who lived and worked in Germany under the
> > Nazis, and who endorsed Nazism in several speeches, did so in a rather
> > lukewarm way.

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