Eight years after its initial composition, Milton looks back at this elegy, rereads it, and picks out the Saint Peter passage on the corrupted clergy as that specific feature of the poem worth singling out and introducing.

在第一版出版的8年后，弥尔顿重新审视了这首挽歌，把圣彼得关于腐朽教会的篇章,单独挑出来并作了介绍。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Here Milton is elaborating on the details of his anticipation of his undying fame. This is a polemical tract about a new way in which the Anglican church government should be organized.

在这儿弥尔顿详细的讲述了他对自己,不朽之名的期望，这是一个关于英国国教教会,政府要采取新的组织方式的论辩文。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选