14 APRIL 1928, Page 29

The noble artifice of the sonnet, as Mr. Lynd so

aptly reminds us in The Silver Book of English Sonnets (Pleiad Press, 218.), "has continued century after century to appeal to great poet after great poet in the full tide of his inspiration." His selection is amusing and admittedly not a choice of the great and well-known masterpieces, but even so we cannot think why he included Keats's sonnet to a cat : it reveals nothing we wish to remember.

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