Yes, I am a native UK English speaker. > It might be a regional dialect, a) it isn't - it might be archaic and poetic, but I don't view it as "regional" > a

Yes, I am a native UK English speaker. > It might be a regional dialect, a) it isn't - it might be archaic and poetic, but I don't view it as "regional" > a regional dialect is also a form of broken English Wrong! That's not how it works. As the sibling comment says, what do you want? To understand the piece, improve your vocabulary or to tell the writer that they're Englishing wrong because "The Critic - Britain's Most Civilised Magazine", is using a turn of phrase that's not well known in your neck 'o the woods? I doubt that they care about that.