6 NOVEMBER 1936, Page 23

A. E. HOUSMAN

[To the Edith,. of Tun SPECTATOR.] .

Sin,—Mr. John Sparrow's statement in his review of A. E. Housman in la't week's Spectator that " he was quite right not to allow his poems to appear in anthologies " admits of at least one exception. In The Ch {swellBook of English Poetry, " compiled and annotated for the use of schools by

Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate (Longmans, 1924) there are five of his : As through the wild green hills of Wyre," -When

I would se in boyhood," " On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble," "Into my heart an air that kills," and " Her strong enchantments falling."--- I am, yours faithfully, 1). E. At-Tv.

St. Andre:es Manse, Castle Douglas, Kirkeudbrig,htshire.