All Milton has at the beginning of his poetic career is the promise of greatness, the anticipation of a luminous body of English poetry.

弥尔顿在诗歌生涯开始的时候只有,上帝传达给他必将伟大的希望，和必将成为英语诗人中最耀眼的人物的预期。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

and many of the anonymous poets from the old English period that I studied in my graduate school days.

还有许多我在大学里学过的古英语时期的匿名诗人。

我的专业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The nationality of that identity is important that is Yeats's Irishness and so is Yeats's audience His ambition is to become the first major Irish poet writing in English.

这种民族的认同感很重要,它关乎他的爱尔兰人特性和读者群,他的目标是成为第一个最重要的,用英语写作的爱尔兰诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But Milton's calling -- this is what John Milton knew his calling was to be a famous English poet, a famous English poet writing in English: a calling that he holds despite the fact that he appears to have written next to nothing in English verse.

但弥尔顿知道上帝对他的召唤,是成为一个有名的英语诗人，一个用英语写作的英语诗人：,他必须服从这个召唤,尽管他看上去不会写任何英语诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选