Sir, - If Mr O'Sullivan (August 31st) would look at my letter carefully, he would see that I was not having a go at Ms Rowling - God bless her readability - but at Kevin Myers's absurdly overblown claims on her behalf as author. Even he would surely note the difference between sentences shaped by Jane Austen and P.G. Wodehouse and those of the Potter trilogy. To elevate one is not to denigrate the other, rather to distinguish between what is literature and what is not. I devoured Enid Blyton as a child, but her writings do not make the passage into adulthood. I still cherish The Crock of Gold, and will read it into my dotage. - Yours, etc.,
Antony Farrell, The Lilliput Press, Arbour Hill, Dublin 7.