This is one of the primary strategies that Milton develops, especially in the first two books of Paradise Lost, as a kind of defense against his dependence on classical literature.

这是弥尔顿发展出的早期策略之一，尤其是在《失乐园》的前两册书中,这似乎是在反驳他对古典文学的依赖。

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There are some important signs, I think, especially in the first two books of Paradise Lost of what we can think of as Milton's - it's a literary fantasy, a literary fantasy of forgetfulness.

我认为有一些重要的迹象，尤其是在,《失乐园》的前两册书中,从那里我们可以思考弥尔顿之所想,这是一次对于遗忘的文学幻想。

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I think that Milton intends for us to think of the verse in Paradise Lost as he wanted us to think of books in Areopagitica: the lines of Milton's poetry are not absolutely dead things, but they do contain within them a potency of life.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由中》让我们把书看作是肉体,我想他也想让我们这样看待《失乐园》的诗句：,弥尔顿的诗句不是毫无生气的，它们蕴含着生命的潜质。

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The extent to which Milton succeeds in justifying such a God in Paradise Lost will be, of course, one of the questions that we will be exploring over the next couple of weeks. So You will read for Wednesday's class the first two books of Paradise Lost.

在失乐园中弥尔顿成功地证实了,这样一个上帝,扩展出了一个我们下几周要研究的一个问题,所以在周三前阅读失乐园的前两部。

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