"Time's Acquittal" is a spirited piece of writing. The little parable, about a woman's loss of her youth and beauty (Sara Coleridge had been a famously beautiful young woman) is fluently narrated, with wry humour and not much self-pity. It has an often informal syntax, with clauses linked by the casual punctuation of a dash, and moments of down-to-earth, even colloquial language: "full of spleen", "thousands more beneath the sun", "But I'm assured by all/Old friends that it was there."from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge
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