Does Milton only seem powerful because he has the force or the strength of the age-old literary canon behind him?

他之所以看起来充满力量,是因为身后的作品被人们奉为文学经典呢？

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And readers of Milton ever since have had to confront not just Milton's writing but this unspeakable sense of empowerment that underlies just about everything that Milton writes.

自那之后，米尔顿的读者们面对的就,不仅是他的作品，还有这种难以言喻的充满力量的感觉,这种感觉暗含在几乎米尔顿的一切写作中。

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