If you've read L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, you know that the image of the great mythological poet Orpheus is always a loaded one for Milton.

如果你们读过《快乐的人》和《沉思的人》，就会知道,伟大的神话诗人俄耳甫斯对弥尔顿来说一直是个沉重的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Yes. Okay. Sometimes I do get students who have just an image of this novel in their mind, or they read it when they were in high school and have a sort of irrational, passionate love for it.

好的，有时候我的确会有一些学生,他们脑子里有一个这部小说的形象，或者在高中里读过,对之有一股毫无理由的热爱。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选