Now I am mentioning these dates here because the dates on which Milton wrote and published his poems, the temporal sequence of these publications, have a peculiar and particular importance for the poet.

我为什么要在这里提到这些日期,因为创作和出版诗的日期，和当时的顺序，对一个诗人有特殊的重要性。

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in fact I want to use the word stitched together, because in the Ancient Greek world the people who sang, recited, created the poems of the Homeric epics were called rhapsodes, and that means stitchers of songs.

事实上,我想使用"串联"这个词,因为在古希腊,那些歌唱,朗诵,和创作《荷马史诗》的人,被称为吟诵者,就是说把诗歌串联在一起传唱

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