The additional interest in this collection lay in how Lucy Hamilton would handle the sonnet form, arguably the most widely used of the forms available to poets. Would they meet the standard definition at all, or merely be 14-line poems tagged with the title, as they often are? Well, these are the genuine article, either Italian with octet, volta, sestet and rhyme, or Shakespearean, or a variant that combines the two forms, usually an English octet and an Italian sestet.
(Review in Sphinx)
Lucy Hamilton Poetry 