Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, with Pound's Critical Essays and Articles about Joyce Book

Well, this is entertaining. Pound in full throttle as the literary enthusiast and "village explainer'' as Gertrude Stein called him ("excellent if you're a village...) He certainly helped Joyce's early efforts as also for Eliot, others, after being introduced to him by Yeats, to whom he was serving as secretary for awhile.
Later, the friendship sours over EP's dislike of "Finnegan's Wake'' - not an easy work to digest, no doubt, but it did not necessarily fall to Joyce's friend and one-time advocate to insist on his objections to Joyce, who had enough on his hands with chronic health and financial problems, and battles with prudish publishers/editors trying to change his copy.
Things further devolved during Pound's dubious "Social Credit'' and Fascist infatuations - Joyce was resolutely apolitical, but still - and his not coincidental advocacy of writers like e.e. cummings , who shared his anti-Semitism, and Wyndham Lewis, who once wrote a positive book about...Hitler.
Still, perhaps unfair to judge a man from the perspective of a different time, and Pound's energetic efforts, particularly early on, to spread the Word of Art, are admirable, and reminiscent of later admirers like Allen Ginsberg (cf., Kerouac) who were more forgiving of his lapses than Ezra, who latterly repented of "the stupid bourgeois sin of anti-Semitism).
It would have been nice to see more of Joyce's responses, though they could hardly have been lengthier - or as filled with Pound's eccentric punctuation and lapses into folksy slang - than his correspondent. I believe the editor here is a Pound scholar inclined to let him off the hook, and the ending, which I won't share here, is lovely.
Overall, an intriguing document of its time, with all its excesses and achievements.