Hardy, arguably the greatest English poet, modern English poet, is a figure we don't study in this course otherwise.

哈迪，可以说是最伟大的英国诗人，现代英国诗人，然而我们不会在这门课中学习他。

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All Milton has at the beginning of his poetic career is the promise of greatness, the anticipation of a luminous body of English poetry.

弥尔顿在诗歌生涯开始的时候只有,上帝传达给他必将伟大的希望，和必将成为英语诗人中最耀眼的人物的预期。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is how Homer prepared himself to be the greatest and the first of all epic poets.

荷马就是这样来让自己成为最伟大的,并且是第一个史诗诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It would be utterly inadequate for us to account for this institutional and surreal institutional power that Milton holds over us by stating blandly that Milton is the greatest English poet.

要解释弥尔顿为什么能对我们施加,这样硬性的甚至荒诞的控制,仅仅说弥尔顿是最伟大的英国诗人是远远不足的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选