Sounds interesting. If you can't get the letters, how about Selected Prose
1909-1965 (ed. Cookson). It does contain the essay  "What I Feel About Walt
Whitman"
Tim Romano
 
Jonathan Morse wrote:
 
> At 07:02 AM 3/29/1999 -0500, Tim Romano wrote, about my fall Pound course:
>
> >What other texts do you have so far?
>
> The course will deal with a pair of major American poets, each
> controversial in his own time: Pound and Whitman. The idea will be for the
> students to read some (not all) of each poet's work and place it in
> biographical and historical context, then write their own studies in
> biography. So I've paired up the books I'm going to put on library reserve,
> with (for instance) normative academic biographies of Pound and Whitman
> alongside William Douglas O'Connor's polemic _The Good Gray Poet_ and
> Eustace Mullins' polemic _This Difficult Individual, Ezra Pound_. I'll also
> be using a pair of disguised autobiographies: Richard Maurice Bucke's _Walt
> Whitman_ (substantially ghosted by Whitman) and Pound's _Gaudier-Brzeska_.
>
> As to the primary texts I'll want students to buy: for Pound they're the
> obvious choices: _Selected Poems_, _Selected Cantos_, and _ABC of Reading_.
> Those are all in stock at W. W. Norton, the successor to New Directions.
> But I haven't heard yet from Norton about the_Selected Letters_, and about
> that one I'm biting my nails. Until somebody gives us an affordable
> one-vololume selection from the newer books of correspondence (are you
> listening, publishers?), the _Selected Letters_ will remain essential. I
> hope Norton isn't going to let it die.
>
> Jonathan Morse