When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

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He's beginning to put aside all of those literary anxieties induced by his reading of Shakespeare, and it's as if he's more and more willing to use as a kind of literary assistant, or helper, Spenser: the great poet of holy matrimony and married sexual bliss.

他开始抛开那些阅读莎士比亚,得到的文学焦虑感，他似乎越来越愿意,使用斯宾塞作为文学助手，斯宾塞：,是神圣婚姻和婚姻性生活祝福的伟大诗人。

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