• AUNT EUDORA AND THE POETS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,--It seems sensible to offer you my reactions to Mr. Sassoon's article of January 31st. against various recent poets, as I am one of the four quoted. I can see that the scraps from me and II. E. Warner go pretty flat. anyway from that angle. I can understand that many Aunt. Eudoras can't enjoy the verse from Auden. or a great deal of Shakespeare either. But the lines from Bottrall seem to me so direct and so obvi- ously good that Aunt Eudora, snarling, in her underdog way, about how she " may be stupid," and would rather hear gossip about Bott rail, becomes a figure of low• comedy. Any- way Mr. Sassoon has played fair : it is a real difference of judgement ; if I had respected his Aunt Eudora 1 might have tried those two bits on her myself.—Yours sincerely,
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