Milton surveys the wealth of literary tradition before him, and he resists its allure without the help of any human guide.

弥尔顿在他之前就调查过文学传统的宝藏，他在没有人帮助的情况下抗拒了这一诱惑。

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Knowledge is actually still being accumulated having to do with the basic facts of the literary tradition.

关于文学历史的知识,也初具系统。

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They are steeped in the entire literary tradition of the underworld journey that stretches from The Odyssey of Homer up through Virgil's Aeneid, and of course up through all of the Renaissance romance epics.

它们被浸泡在整套文学传统中,穿越了从荷马的《奥德赛》上升到,维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》的地下之旅，当然它也经历了所有文艺复兴时期的浪漫史诗。

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After the long sway of Theocritus' and Virgil's pastorals, ; of course Christianity entered the scene,a new dispensation; and Christianity began to load this pastoral literary tradition with its own set of associations.

在维吉尔等两人对田园诗的长久统治之后，基督教义作为新的统治思想兴起了;,并且开始以它自身的一套体系,附在田园诗的文学传统之上。

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He's a literary power, a figure who could be called upon to supply the voice of tradition in itself.

他是一种文化力量，一个,可以随时用来声援传统文化的人物。

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Okay. So that's the basic distinction and, as I say, as far as I can see it's irreconcilable so it leaves us with a choice that really does have to be made, and it's a choice which looms over a course in literary theory and coming to understand the tradition of literary theory.

这就是二者基本的不同之处，我以前说过，只要二者不能兼容,我们就不得不从中选择一个，这个选择将会一直出现在文学理论课,和理解文学理论传统的过程中。

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