She is very often assimilated to a whole group of southern writers who were working -- in the 1930s and '40s, the "Southern Agrarians."

她经常被和那些活跃在,19世纪30年代和40年代的,一批南方作家们相提并论，“南方重农派“

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And so it seemed a natural move for early Christian writers to use this existing pastoral form when they wanted to speak on subject of priests or ministers or affairs of the church.

于是用现存的田园诗来谈论,关于牧师或教堂事务的话题,成了早期基督派作家非常自然的转变。

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