In a recent American Life in Poetry column, he writes about the poem "Betrayal" by Andrea Hollander Budy.

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And what he writes about is an extraordinary concept really: it's something called "the nobility of the poem".

他所写的是一个绝妙的理念,叫做，诗歌的高贵。

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As in Sonnet Seven, Milton writes the first verse paragraph of this great poem, Lycidas -- the first fourteen lines - in essentially the form of a sonnet.

如同《十四行诗第七首》，弥尔顿写《利西达斯》,这首伟大的诗的开头--头14行时,-用的还是十四行诗的形式。

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This is by far the most learned and the most demanding lyric poem that Milton writes.

这是目前为止弥尔顿所写过的,最博学读来也最吃力的一首抒情诗了。

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And so Milton writes : "And when we return to our native Olympus" and in a classically oriented poem such as this a phrase like "our native Olympus" would always serve to signify the Christian heaven.

所以在83页他写到：,“当我们回到奥林匹斯山“,在古典主义的诗里，如这句,“我们的奥林匹斯山“通常象征着基督教的天堂。

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The next major poem that Milton writes after Comus is Lycidas.

弥尔顿在《科玛斯》之后的重要诗作是《利西达斯》

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