None of England's pre-Miltonic poets -- Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare had dared to suggest -- and it would never have occurred to them to suggest that theirs was actually a divine vocation.

在弥尔顿之前，包括乔叟，斯潘塞和莎士比亚,没人敢这么说-他们从不敢,说自己的职业是神圣的。

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