In other words, in the absence of human agency, the first sacrifice for literary theory is the author, the idea of the author.

换句话说，由于不懂人类起源，文学理论的第一牺牲者,就是作家，作家的思想。

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Now readers of English literature talk about Milton very differently from the way they talk about other writers.

如今英国文学的读者对米尔顿的说法,与他们对其他作家的说法极为不同。

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That's some sense of the spectrum of magazines that are coming out, and all with different roles to play in this culture and that position their writers and poets and artists associated with them in different ways.

对于设定即将出版的杂志的基调，以及它们在文学发展中扮演的不同角色,作家诗人和艺术家们以不同方式与之相连的地位,都具有一定的意义。

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