Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Algernon Charles Swinburne born (5-4-1837) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 12:10:01 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 11 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 23:10:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="28f710d36e56d4b74e2143bb7ed767f4"; logging-data="993827"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19uCLnms1T6PKb6HVJ8jcvmT0BFEB1zz6Q=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rTXHuiyaqsas/4BP9nHROiu/Z5c= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1310 Victorian ("decadent") poet etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne Invented (?) a verse form called a "roundel": ABAB, BAB, ABAB Examples: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Century_of_Roundels