So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.

因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If you're not taking notes in this lecture, you have to write down at least one sentence. You must write this down because this will be the most important thing I say all morning: Milton's Paradise Lost is the first narrative poem in English that didn't rhyme.

就算你们这堂课不记笔记，也一定要记下至少一句话，一定要把这记下来,这是我一早上说的最重要的一句话了：,弥尔顿的《失乐园》是,第一首不押韵的英语叙事诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选