Milton claims that epic poetry is the highest ambition for a poet and then he goes on to explain how it is that the epic poet should comport himself.

弥尔顿声称史诗就是诗人最高的理想抱负,然后他又解释到,史诗诗人该怎样表现自己。

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When Plato writes his Republic and devotes Book Ten, as I'm sure most of you know, to an argument in effect banishing the poets from the ideal republic, part of the argument is that poets are terrible imitators.

当柏拉图写《理想国》和《第十卷》的时候，你们肯定都听过这两部著作，他提出了一个一个论点，要把诗人从理想国中驱逐出境，他提到，诗人都是拙劣的仿造者。

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He wants to deprive poets of their power to enchant, and something Socrates admits in the tenth book of the Republic, to which he himself has been highly susceptible to the enchantment of the poets.

他想剥去诗人使人着迷的力量，可苏格拉底,也在《理想国》的十册中承认，他个人,对诗人的魅力抵抗力很弱。

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