They no longer employ Inversions of words and phrases, nor cultivate the stock poetical terms and words allowed formerly as a matter of poetic license.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
The ink was refractory and a vigorous flick sent a shower of green drops over the sand on which I was sitting, and as I watched the ink settle into the absorbent quartz-the Inversions of our grandmothers' blotters-I thought of what jolly things the lost ink might have been made to say about butterflies and rocks, if it could have flowed out slowly in curves and angles and dots over paper-for the things we might have done are always so much more worthy than those which we actually accomplish.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
Hyperion, 1820, promised to be his masterpiece, but he left it unfinished-"a Titanic torso"-because, as he said, "there were too many Miltonic Inversions in it."
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers