Miltonicsn.
/mɪlˈtɒnɪks/, U.S. /mɪlˈtɑnɪks/ Verses or style typical or imitative of Milton; verses by Milton.
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Byronic1850
Skeltonic1908
Miltonics1928
1736 S. Wesley Poems 156 (title) Epigram on the foregoing Miltonicks.
c1750 (title) The empty purse. A poem, in Miltonics. Dedicated to the thrice worthy person that fills it.
1792 W. Cowper Let. 15 Apr. (1984) IV. 55 Having translated all the Latin and Italian Miltonics, I was proceeding merrily with the commentary on the Paradise Lost.
1826 T. Comber (title) Miltonics: a mock-heroic poem.
1928 O. Barfield Poetic Diction x. 177 No one would have dreamed of employing the stale Miltonics, which lay at the bottom of so much eighteenth-century ‘poetic diction’, in prose, however imaginative.
1944 Scrutiny 12 202 Johnson's disapproval of Gray's Pinderick sublimities goes with his disapproval of Miltonics.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Jan. 5/3 The poem is written not in Swift's Hudibrastic metre but in domesticated Miltonics.
1988 18th-cent. Stud. 21 493 The formal experimental sense..—from the couplets of varied length..to the sapphics of George Canning or the alternating hudibrastics and miltonics of William Somervile—is finally as important [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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