The early revived forms of the cabriole leg were joined by stretchers, but these were abandoned, as they interrupted the line of the leg and were not needed for strength.
Scarratt was forced to miss the match because of a thigh injury but is in no doubt about its significance in signalling England's reviving form.
To his credit, in a deeply unsettled life, he has nurtured this capacity to find within the creative act itself new, reviving forms of homecoming.
In the 20th century, composers such as Igor Stravinsky and Henry Cowell revived the form.
In the late 18th century Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops to Conquer, 1773) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (The Rivals, 1775; The School for Scandal, 1777) revived the form.
Later composers revived the form, including Johannes Brahms in the last movement of his Symphony No. 4 (1885) and Benjamin Britten in his String Quartet No. 2 (1945).
By then Mr. Robinson was a revered teacher, appearing in New York and other cities in festivals and tributes to the tap veterans who revived the form.
But Caesar's tricolon is run close by those great orators Lincoln and Churchill, while in recent years Barack Obama has revived the form, sometimes going for a double tricolon, as in this speech echoing the Declaration of Independence: "Our generation's task is to make these words, these rights, these values – of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – real".
The architectural historian Giles Worsley describes him as "the first English architect to grasp the full potential of the Greek Revival", and David Watkin says he is the "finest" of the architects who revived the forms of Greek architecture.
The sociopolitical trauma of civil conflict with its cultural and economic uncertainty revived outmoded forms of realism.
