让我们看看约翰逊博士在18世纪对弥尔顿的《利西达斯》所做的评论。
Let's look at the comments that Dr. Johnson made about Milton's Lycidas in the eighteenth century.
这个维吉尔式的共鸣使弥尔顿的这一段,有了一种一目了然的悲怆和不可否认的绝美。
The Virgilian echo gives this passage in Milton an unmistakable pathos and an undeniable beauty.
我们会认为,与弥尔顿的同时代人,可能会被这首诗的开头所使用的对撒旦同情的描述所震惊。
We would think that Milton's contemporaries might be aghast that such a sympathetic portrait of Satan could be used at the beginning of the poem.
But for Milton's contemporaries in the seventeenth century, Milton's power really wasn't at all aesthetic or even religious in nature.
但在17世纪弥尔顿同时代的人看来,弥尔顿的力量却是毫无美感的,甚至本质上不是宗教上的。
Milton has wrenched this poem away from Christianity, and he's forced it into a direction that we could loosely call paganism.
弥尔顿的诗歌偏离了基督教,走了我们可以不严谨的称为异教的方向。
It's fitting that the first poem of Milton's that we study in this class is "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity."
这节课我们首先学弥尔顿的,《圣诞清晨歌》是很合适的“
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