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SYNTAX.
Since time immemorial, language has had a two-chamber
system of its own, where the upper house — poetry
and ’higher1 style — has ever been characterized by its
conservatism and arbitrariness. The laws of common prose
it has mercilessly rejected or changed them at its own will.
The language of almost every poet may be expected
to rest on the foundations of this ’higher’ and
conservative style. A number of words and phrases that prose
has long since forgotten still prevail there; and, as has
already been said, it has also a special grammar and, more
particularly, a special syntax.
If we examine the divergencies from average modern
English found in Swinburne we may therefore divide them
into two groups: such as his language has in common
with that higher style just spoken of, and such as are
more specifically his own. These latter, then, also divide
into two groups: things characteristic only because of their
frequency, and things that have been completely waked up
from oblivion by Swinburne, or have even been introduced
into English by him.
Of the two main divisions, the first clearly demands
no special treatment in a work of this kind. The second
main division, then, will be the subject of this survey of
Swinburne’s syntax, and I begin with the first subdivision —
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