and died c.1633. It seems he was an eccentric sort of character: a Catholic, he held a court post under James I, only to fall out of favour on the accession of Charles I and end his days imprisoned for debt.The palinode is not a strict poetic form: the term simply means a retraction. Bolton, however, raises retraction to an art. His poem is shaped as two sonnets, each rather different in rhyme-scheme, and certainly not straightforward mirror-images of statement and retraction.
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: A Palinode by Edmund Bolton
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