Dear Sir,

It is extraordinary how touchy and nasty an academic can become when confronted with the romantic. A prime example of this is Prof. Patrick McCaughey’s review of Charles Blackman – The Lost Domains in your March issue. It seems he just cannot stand a romantic writer writing romantically about a romantic painter, and sets out, not merely to debunk her writing, but, in effect, to destroy the delight one can experience from what is, by his own admission, a magnificently produced book.