No English poet before Milton ever suggested that he had been chosen by God at birth to be a poet.

在弥尔顿之前没有英国诗人敢说,自己是被上帝选中去做诗人的。

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Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

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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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Now turning to your sheet, in the early, early modern period the poet and courtier, Sir Philip Sidney, wrote an elegant, really wonderfully written defense of poetry, in one edition called The Apology for Poesie.

现在回到发给你们的材料上来，英国，伊丽莎白时期的朝臣及诗人，西德尼，曾写过很多很多，优美的诗歌，全部收录在一本名为《诗辩》的集子里。

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We can anatomize some of the forms of power that have been most commonly attributed to this greatest English poet.

我们可以剖析一下这种种,大家通常认为这伟大的英国诗人所具有的力量。

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Professor John Rogers: Milton is typically cited by literary historians as one of the first major English poets to praise in verse the institution of marriage.

约翰·罗格斯教授：文学家们说弥尔顿,是英国早期诗人中,赞美婚姻制度的一员。

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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

我自己作为一名英国诗人有意地,在我称作感性的声音中写出音乐感。

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There's W.H. Auden, an English-born poet who moved to America.

有奥登，出生于英国却搬到美国去的诗人。

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Milton represented himself as a poet more often and with more care and attention than any English poet before him.

弥尔顿比起之前的英国诗人,更经常把自己描绘成诗人。

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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。

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The Death of the Hired Man," "Home Burial," "A Servant to Servants," these are poems in which Frost is giving New England workers the language of the great English poets.

雇佣者之死“,“家冢“,“仆人的仆人“,这都是弗罗斯特给新英格兰工人的诗,伟大的英国诗人的语言。

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So I've given this first lecture a title, the title being "Milton, Power, and the Power of Milton," because any introduction to Milton has to confront the long-standing conviction in English letters of Milton's power or his strength as a poet.

所以我给这第一场讲座起名叫做，米尔顿，力量，以及米尔顿的力量“,因为只要要介绍米尔顿，就无法绕开,米尔顿作为诗人的力量,这一英国文学一直以来的话题。

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There's T.S. Eliot, the only great English poet born in America.

有唯一一个出生在美国的英国诗人，T。S。艾略特。

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