Great Regulars: As in many of [Winthrop Mackforth] Praed's poems,

much remains in "Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine" to appeal to the modern reader. We might be inspired to draw topical parallels (the short-lived celebrity marriages, the columns of trite commentary) or to insert "grand and great" names of our own. Certainly it's tempting to feel that the habits and paradoxes of power have not essentially changed in the last 200-plus years.

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed

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