Miltonismn.
/ˈmɪltənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmɪltn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈmɪltəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmɪltnˌɪz(ə)m/ A Miltonic mode of expression; (an example of) Miltonic language or style.
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Miltonism1802
Byronism1817
Shelleyism1822
Shakespearism1823
Tennysonianism1843
Virgilianism1850
Swinburnism1868
Swinburnianism1869
Browningese1880
Shakespeareanism1886
Whitmanism1889
Horatian1891
Whitmanese1893
Tennysonianness1915
Praedism1927
Horatianism1936
Miltonicism1936
1802 C. Lamb Let. 23 Oct. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 82 Cowper's damn'd blank verse detains you every step with some heavy Miltonism.
1868 Notes & Queries 22 Aug. 171/1 Miltonism requires a poet's power, not a copyist's handiwork.
1938 E. Pound Let. 8 May (1971) 316 I do, however, prefer your ‘supreme Hippocrates’ [line 137]... Miltonism tho' it may be.
1968 R. Gittings John Keats I. iii. 43 It has spontaneous feeling, but it is padded out with Miltonisms.
1990 ELH 57 871 Cowper's pompous Miltonism—‘Me, therefore, studious of laborious ease’—is a deliberate self-mocking touch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1802