As early as the late seventeenth century, Milton had already entered what we can think of as the English literary canon.

早在17世纪末，弥尔顿就跻身,我们现在认为是英国文学经典的殿堂。

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The early poems are not merely brilliant literary exercises in and of themselves, although of course they are that.

早期的诗不仅仅是杰出的文学练习,虽然他们当然b本身就是。

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