A CAMBRIDGE (?) POET
[To the Editor of the Sews-A.1mq
Sin,- Mr. Arthur Waugh writes so kindly of my article that I am loth to frame a controversial reply. I have not a word to say against " Blayds of Balliol." But the facts are stubborn it is not Blayds of Banjo], but Calverley of Christ's, whose name is written large across the works of " C. S. C." Let the poems speak for themselves. Three of them (` Ilk air, iris est," the " Carmen SaeeuLsre " and the charade on the word "Marrow ") deal directly with Cambridge subjects or scenes ; and scattered Cambridge allusions are fairly plentiful else- where. I can trace only one reference to Oxford. In a foot- note to the "Carmen Sacculare " the author speaks of a certain habit as borrowed a barbaris . . . urbem Bosporiam in ft. Iside habitantibus. Note the word bcabaris! Perhaps the moral is-that, if Oxford wants to keep her poets, she should treat them with more forbearance than the Balliol authorities
displayed towards the light-hearted Blayds. am, Sir, &c.,
THE WRITER OP THE AISTICLE,
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