For Stevens, when modernity takes away God what it does is unveil the poet's Godlike powers, a power to create the world through imagination, imagination which created God in the first place.

对他而言，当现代性取代了上帝的地位,它所起的作用就是解释诗人所有的神明般的力量，这是一种在想象中重塑世界的力量，这种想象最初创造出了上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I have to tell you that Levi-Strauss, who is still alive, a very old man, expresses great bitterness in his old age about what he takes to be the displacement of the importance of his own work by what happened subsequently.

现在列维仍然在世，年事已高，晚年他表达了,自己对作品的重要性,后来被取代的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You might think of walking in here expecting Professor Hungerford on censorship and getting me instead. But this is a very important idea for Nabokov both as a way of treating predecessors and as a way of writing. And I want to show you that way of writing very early in the book on page 10 now. Let's take a look at that.

你们可能期待亨格福特教授走上讲台,取代我讲审查制度，但这对纳博科夫而言,是非常重要的对待前辈和写作的方法,接下来，我将向你们展示,他的写作风格，在这本书的很前面，第10页，我们一起看一下。

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