That's why the poem, the lyric poem, is privileged among the forms of literary discourse in the New Criticism.

这就是为什么诗，一首抒情诗，在新批评派眼里要优于其他各种文学形式。

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So the criterion is: is it relevant to the unified form that we as critics are trying to realize in the text?

所以，这里的标准是：,隐含的意义是否和文本的一致性有关,而这正是我们作为文学批评家,要通过文本实现的？

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Do not let the critics confuse you.

别被文学批评家搞糊涂了。

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All of this has to be yoked together in the imagery of a good poem, particularly of a metaphysical poem, and this model of complexity is what matters both for modern literature and for literary criticism.

一首好诗,的应该融合这些意象，尤其一首玄学诗，同时，这种复杂性,在现代文学,和文学批评中都十分重要。

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I think Empson is the funniest person who has ever written literary criticism.

我认为Empson在所有写过文学批评里头的人,算是最有趣的一个了。

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