These songs told stories about love and death and difficult times.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Why can't he write love poetry, secular poetry, instead of this much more disciplined, much more difficult mode of sacred and prophetic poetry ? that he seems already to have wedded himself to?

为什么不写爱情诗，世俗的诗，而是这些,拘束难写的庄严的充满套路的,他似乎长久以来一直都在写的诗呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Why can't he write love poetry, secular poetry, instead of this much more disciplined, much more difficult mode of sacred and prophetic poetry ? that he seems already to have wedded himself to?

为什么不写爱情诗，世俗的诗，而是这些,拘束难写的庄严的充满套路的,他似乎长久以来一直都在写的诗呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选