Now it's still going to be another twenty-five years before Milton writes the great epic, but Milton will no longer express the same degree of anxiety about under-preparation to write the great epic.

距他成为真正的史诗诗人,还有25年，但是弥尔顿不会再轻易表现出,关于创作史诗毫无准备的同等的焦虑了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We will hear again of Milton's intention to write an epic in a versified letter that he writes to his best friend, Charles Diodati. This is the letter to Diodati which Milton publishes as the Sixth Elegy.

我们又一次听到弥尔顿想写史诗,是在他给最好的朋友查尔斯，迪奥达蒂的一封信里，这就是那封信,弥尔顿以第六挽歌的名字出版。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选