[SideburnsOfDoom]

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.

[afandian]

Excuse me, do you have a license for that gerund?

[SideburnsOfDoom]

Well no, but I get tired of using the literary British voice after a while and I want to mix it up, demonstrate bending the rules, annoy the purists, épater le bourgeois, etc.

[afandian]

Thank you, that reason is on the list of allowable exceptions.