 Spenser's use of language was widely contrasted to that of "free and unregulated" sixteenth-century Shakespearian grammar.Spenser's style is standardized, lyrically sophisticated, and full of archaisms that give the poem an original taste.Sugden argues in "The Grammar of Spenser's Faerie Queene" that the archaisms reside "chiefly in vocabulary, to a high degree in spelling, to some extent in the inflexions, and only slightly in the syntax".