Think about the writers you've studied from the eighteenth century.

想想你曾学过的18世纪的作家。

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Now readers of English literature talk about Milton very differently from the way they talk about other writers.

如今英国文学的读者对米尔顿的说法,与他们对其他作家的说法极为不同。

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In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

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