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V. Past Participles.
The compounds of past participles are without doubt
the most common of all in the language of Swinburne.
As I have tried to prove in the case of present participles
(page 101), the influence of the classical languages, where
participles are well-known favourite words, is the principal
cause of this. Undeniably these formations always strike
one as somewhat heavy and oratorical: that the poet
himself has had some such impression, appears, I think, from
their prevalence in the particularly oratorical collections of
poems — such as the «Songs before Sunrise» etc, often
mentioned already. In this connection I will quote the
opinion of an Englishman — Theodore Wratislaw — on
this category of Swinburne’s poems [Wratislaw, page 66]:
The volume considered as a whole is perhaps
somewhat cold . . . One can hardly imagine a revolutionary
being inspired or instructed by the < Songs before Sunrise >.
But for its torrent-like utterance, its enormous command
over metrical effects and the peculiar distinction of each
individual poem, it must be ranked among its author’s
highest achievements in the art of poetry».
Without doubt, this cold and artistic elaboration
and this aim at a rhetorically stately language have
induced the poet to choose his syntax and his words and
word-formations among those two styles that have always
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