Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.
弥尔顿死于1674年,死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。
Now, probably the form of power that we most readily associated with John Milton involves his position at the dead center of the English literary canon.
我们最容易由约翰·弥尔顿,联想到的力量形式很可能,与他处在英国文学经典的中心位置有关。
I'll just tell you that Tennyson thought cellar door the two most beautiful words in the English language were "cellar door" and that audible beauty was his preoccupation in the making of poetry.
我想说的是,塔尼森认为,英语中最动人的两个词是“,这是他对于追求诗歌听觉效果的执念。
Significantly, this picture of Yeats as King Goll was used as an illustration for his first appearance in an English periodical a magazine of art and ideas called The Leisure Hour.
叶芝扮作郭尔王的这幅画,首先出现在一份英国艺术和思想,期刊休闲时刻上,作为他首次,公开亮相,这很重要。
He was a master of English style and prose, and his work ranks among the very greatest in this or any other language.
他是英文写作的大师,他的作品不管在哪种语言里,都是佼佼者。
When you get to say the middle of the nineteenth century and the work of the great English historian of Ancient Greece, George Grote, he begins his story in 776 with the Olympic Games.
十九世纪中叶,有一位研究古希腊的,伟大英国历史学家乔治·格罗特,他从公元776年的奥运会开始执笔
The English Reformation, which begins with Henry VIII wanting to divorce and kill his various wives along the way, still had an awful lot to do with the resistance to the power of Rome and the power of the Catholic Church as an institution.
英国的宗教改革,自亨利八世开始,就是那个总爱离婚,且一辈子患有杀妻癖的君王,他仍然还要面对强大的罗马教廷,以及天主教会的反对与干涉
Maybe his friends speak English.
也许他的朋友们会说英语。
Actually we have Milton's commonplace book, his reading notes, and you can find it all in English translation in volume one of The Complete Prose Works of John Milton.
事实上我们有弥尔顿的那本普通的书,他的阅读笔记,你们可以找到完全的英译本,在弥尔顿全部散文作品的第一卷。
Milton's subject in his first English poem is -- we can guess it it's his future literary career.
弥尔顿在他的第一首英语诗歌里的主题,我们可以猜一下,是他将来的文学事业。
He's engaging his father in to a contractual situation just as he will engage the entire English people in The Reason of Church Government.
他在使他的父亲加入这个合同,就像他使整个英国国民加入一样,我们在《教会政府的原因》里已经看到过。
John Milton will remain unique in English letters for the degree of thought that he gave to the shape of his literary career, or actually to the notion of a career at all.
约翰弥尔顿在英语文学方面的影响是十分独特的,因为他深刻的思想塑造了他的文学事业,或者说,塑造了他对事业的看法。
In a little scene from the early English history that Milton had selected from his reading, you have an image of silencing, of a horrifying and unredeemable speechlessness that is so closely connected to virginity.
早期英国文学中的一个小场景,那是弥尔顿从他的阅读中选出的,你们,对于可怕的不可挽回的哑口无言有种寂静感,这与童贞紧密相连。
The nationality of that identity is important that is Yeats's Irishness and so is Yeats's audience His ambition is to become the first major Irish poet writing in English.
这种民族的认同感很重要,它关乎他的爱尔兰人特性和读者群,他的目标是成为第一个最重要的,用英语写作的爱尔兰诗人。
So I've given this first lecture a title, the title being "Milton, Power, and the Power of Milton," because any introduction to Milton has to confront the long-standing conviction in English letters of Milton's power or his strength as a poet.
所以我给这第一场讲座起名叫做,米尔顿,力量,以及米尔顿的力量“,因为只要要介绍米尔顿,就无法绕开,米尔顿作为诗人的力量,这一英国文学一直以来的话题。
All Milton has at the beginning of his poetic career is the promise of greatness, the anticipation of a luminous body of English poetry.
弥尔顿在诗歌生涯开始的时候只有,上帝传达给他必将伟大的希望,和必将成为英语诗人中最耀眼的人物的预期。
What in the hell is all of this doing here? Milton's reporting to the English people how he imagines his future literary fame.
这究竟和他有什么关系?,他却对英国人说着他对自己未来文学名声的想象。
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