This is Yeats in costume, costumed as a figure from Irish myth, as an ancient bard, mad King Goll, which is the furthest thing from a modern poet.

穿着奇装异服的叶芝，打扮成爱尔兰传说中的人物，过去的吟唱诗人，疯癫的郭尔王，他与这位现代诗人相隔甚远。

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The idea then that Machiavelli is doing no more than saying openly and overtly what ancient writers had wrapped in parable and enigma and myth says something about Machiavelli's new political science.

马基雅维利只不过是,公然说出了古代作家们,以寓言，谜以及神话的形式包裹的内容,这种看法一定程度上阐明了马基雅维利的。

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