The remarkable poetical quality exhibited in the Brut of Layamon is perhaps hardly recognized at its true value even by students of our earlier literature. The rather excessive length of this work has probably deterred many from a careful and thorough perusal, and it is likely that the number of those who have read it right through is not large. The Present writer believes that lovers of English poetry will be well repaid by such a study and he has attempted to display some of the chief beauties of the Brut in an article which appeared in the January 1930 number of the Review of English Studies.