Milton -- and we know this -- Milton was a political revolutionary, and when he anticipated writing the great poem, he consistently imagined that it would be a poem on a nationalist theme.

弥尔顿--我们知道--是个政治革命家，一直以来他所预想的这首伟大诗歌，的主题应该是民族主义的。

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