Yeats bridges Irish and English cultures, and he is importantly Protestant with social and family ties to English life.

叶芝连接了爱尔兰和英国文化，作为新教徒，他和英国,在社会和家庭方面联系紧密。

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He was beginning to join ranks with those early seventeenth-century English Protestants who imposed upon themselves rigorous and strict codes of behavior and self-denial, and who were increasingly being called by their enemies Puritans.

他要开始加入,17世纪早期英国新教徒的行列,那些人把严格的行为准则和自我否认,强加到自己身上，还不断被敌人称为清教徒。

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