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Pronunciation: [mɪltˈɒnɪk] (IPA)

Miltonic is an adjective that refers to the works of English poet John Milton, who is best known for writing the epic poem "Paradise Lost." Other synonyms for Miltonic include epic, grandiose, heroic, lofty, majestic, elevated, sublime, and monumental. These words describe works of literature that are important and serious, often dealing with themes of morality, justice, and religion. In addition to Milton's own works, other examples of Miltonic literature include "Beowulf," "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, and "The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser. Overall, Miltonic is a powerful descriptor that evokes a sense of weightiness and significance.

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Usage examples for Miltonic

He is still afraid, and not without reason, that pure description will fall into flat prose, and tries to 'raise his diction'-in the phrase of the day-by catching something of the Miltonic harmony and by speaking of fish as 'finny tribes' and birds as 'the feathered people.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
How Marylin, had she understood it, would have kicked the high hat off of such Miltonic phrasing.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
Yet, besides these faculties of finesse and intrigue-and the Miltonic Belial never told lies with more winsome grace-Metternich showed at times a manly composure and firmness, even when Napoleon unmasked a searching fire of diplomatic questions and taunts.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose

Famous quotes with Miltonic

  • No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. I hope in time to have a more balanced and Miltonic style. But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music, and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive, and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer. This vice I cannot have escaped.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins

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