Now I am mentioning these dates here because the dates on which Milton wrote and published his poems, the temporal sequence of these publications, have a peculiar and particular importance for the poet.

我为什么要在这里提到这些日期,因为创作和出版诗的日期，和当时的顺序，对一个诗人有特殊的重要性。

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