Swinburne gave the coup de grace to English rhyme. - F. S. Flint

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Swinburne gave the coup de grace to English rhyme.

F. S. Flint

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About F. S. Flint

Frank Stuart Flint (December 19, 1885 – February 28, 1960) was an English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the group.

Alternative Names: Frank Stuart Flint

Originators like F. S. Flint:

My own unryhmed cadences , and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.

My three propositions to poetry are:

There is only one art of writing, and that is the art of poetry..whether it is in the form of prose or in rhyme and meter or in rhymed cadence.