And it's in these years after his graduation from college that Milton embarks upon what is essentially a systematic study of all available knowledge. He commands a mastery of just about the entire canon of Western literary and historical learning.

就是在他毕业后的这些年里,弥尔顿开始着手系统的学习,方方面面的知识，他想要精通,整个西方文学和历史经典。

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You'll remember that I mentioned several minutes ago that Milton appears -- literary historians, I think, have rightly seen the Milton who had written Lycidas as a different figure than the poet before having written Lycidas.

你们还记得我刚刚说过,精通文学的历史学家们，恰恰把写出了的弥尔顿,看作和之前的弥尔顿完全不同的一个人。

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