Wednesday, June the 24th, 2009
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“Swinburne… boasted to Burne-Jones that he had ‘discovered the one serious rhyme in the language’ to ‘babe’, which was, not very helpfully, ‘astrolabe’.”
Mollie Panter-Downes, At The Pines : Swinburne And Watts-Dunton In Putney (1971).
I was directed to this magnificent and eccentric book by Nige, who also provides a link to Max Beerbohm's account of his Putney visit.