Spenser has an intimate feel for Vergilian intratextuality, the mirrorings and repetitions that create patterns of likeness and difference, reaching over the whole text and linking images, motifs, and persons.

It is not kitchen-sinky if we understand a kitchen-sink not simply [as] a language very loaded with various grammatical and phonological features but only a language where they are only for their own sake and don't make a functional system together.

The feeble folk at home had grown full-used / To 'dug-outs', 'snipers', 'Huns', from the war-adept / In the mornings heard, and at eventides perused; / To day-dreamt men in millions, when they mused-- / to nightmare-men in millions when they slept.

This premodern pitilessness Pettigrew deprecated, but he was less enthusiastic about aspects of modernity other than compassion, like “atheism, deism, and philosophistic religion, so prevalent in the soi-disant enlightened countries.