'Sir, – What does Robert Potts, reviewing Peter Porter’s anthology The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse (October 3), mean by saying that A. D. Hope’s “Augustan line . . . owes more to English education than Australian residence”? Doesn’t he know that Hope went to New South Wales schools and the University of Sydney before spending at Oxford three of his so far ninety years? Does he imagine that Augustan models are unknown to Australian residents?' (Introduction)