All of Milton's expectations that England might actually be transformed, and they were glorious expectations, into something like a Puritan utopia or even a Puritan paradise -- all of that had been destroyed.

弥尔顿壮丽的期望，将英格兰转变成一个，清教徒乌托邦，甚至是清教徒天堂的期望,统统破灭了。

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And I can only assume that that is precisely the point, that Milton would -- later in 1667 when Paradise Lost is published, he would make his poem canonical just like The Iliad and just like The Odyssey and The Aeneid before anyone had actually read it.

我只能假设就是为了这点，当他在1667年出版《失乐园》后，弥尔顿会遵照《伊利亚特》的模式来创作诗歌,还有《奥德赛》和《埃涅阿斯纪》,在这之前人们还没有真正的读过这些书。

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