Mc KAY, K.J., — Erysichthon. A Callimachean Comedy.

Brill, Leiden, 1962. 140p. Sewn. Theses. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. With short letter from the promotor, W.J. Verdenius. 'There is learning, diligence, enthusiasm in McKay's studies of Callimachus' two Hymns (the Fifth or 'Bath of Pallas'; the Sixth or 'Demeter') but there is also, as I see it, a fundamental failure of judgement, a basic misunderstanding of the poet. We must, of course, admit that there are diversities of opinion and that Callimachus is enigmatic, does not wear his heart on his sleeve. But the trouble with McKay's interpretations is not simply the novelty of his conclusions: it is the method, the approach that seem to me in error. (…) Yet let me say that I found the monographs interesting and, more than that, stimulating. I found myself rethinking all the problems; my eye for Callimachus' meaning was decidedly sharpened. (BROOKS OTIS on K.J. McKay, The Poet at Play (1962), and Erysichthon (1962) in The American Journal of Philology, 1964, p.423).