So Milton implies to Diodati that he isn't yet up to the task of epic, but as he describes the Nativity Ode that he's just written, it's almost as if he considers it something of a mini-epic.

所以弥尔顿暗示迪奥达蒂自己还不能完成创作史诗的任务，但他提到了他刚写完的《圣诞清晨歌》,好像这就是一篇迷你史诗。

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It's not until Book Three of Paradise Lost that the poet explicitly reveals to us, to his readers, the fact of the physical handicap that might reasonably be thought to render impossible his composition of the poem.

直到失乐园第三卷,诗人才明确告诉读者们，自己失明的事实,这可能被合理的认为是他无法完成诗歌创作的原因。

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