Finally, I think it can be said that it's a poem whose deepest investmentis actually in Milton's mastery over the entire Western tradition of literature.

最后，我要说的是,这是一首弥尔顿对自身对于现代文学传统的,写作技巧苦心经营的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Well, I don't know. It seems to me that literary influence is not at all unlike sort of speaking or writing in the wake of a founder of discursivity, but we can let that pass.

我不知道，我觉得,文学的影响力和演讲和写作的影响力还是有相似之处的,尤其是在散漫性被发现之后，但是我们可以不谈这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Knowledge, all the arts and sciences, literature, all of the religious writings of the world are manifestations of that voice that at its origin is God saying, "Let there be light." It's the voice of creation.

只是，所有的艺术，科学，文学，所有世界上宗教的写作的开端,都是上帝的声音，让光明普照世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选