ANGLO-SAXON PLATITUDES
SIR,—! have written Mr•. Kingsley Amis's comments on long poems in English out on a slip of paper (for ready reference) thus : - The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost: remote and frigid.
Troilus and Cri'seyde: footling rigmarole. Sir Gawain, Havelock, etc.: nobody in full possession of his faculties could enjoy them. Beowttlf: a star turn of the Oxford English
• School.
Should I ever in the future feel uncertain about Mr. Amis's Wife and judgement, I shall be able to turn to this slip of paper and banish any doubts. I am sorry that he did not have speed to deal with The Dunciad, The Prelude and The Ring and the Book; indeed, the only criticism I would make of his in- valuable article is that he devoted the larger portion of it to the book he was reviewing.—Yours faith- fully,
King's College, University of Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1 PETER URE
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