Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, With Pound's Critical Essays and Articles About Joyce

During the winter of 1913 Ezra Pound was in Sussex with William Butler Yeats, acting as the elder poet's secretary. Temporarily free of the rush of London, each was assessing the other's work and both were laying out new directions. When Pound had almost completed an anthology of new poets, the Imagists, he asked Yeats if there was anyone he had forgotten to include. Yeats recalled a young Irish writer named James Joyce who had written some polished lyric poems. One of them had stuck in Yeats's mind. Joyce was living in Trieste. Why not write to him?