If Milton's true muse, or so he hopes or so he wants us to believe, has a Christian origin, then this counter-muse is unquestionably classical.

如果弥尔顿他望或想要我们相信，他真正的缪斯女神，有一个基督教的原型，那么这位与缪斯女神相对的人物毫无疑问是经典的。

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You could think of Medusa as Milton's counter-muse.

你可以把美杜莎看作是弥尔顿最重要的缪斯女神。

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Milton tells the muse -- or is he telling himself?

弥尔顿告诉缪斯或者是告诉自己？

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Milton asks the Sicilian muse -- this is the muse of pastoral poetry - asks the muse to help him strew the flowers over the hearse, to strew with flowers the casket in which Lycidas' body lies.

弥尔顿让西西里缪斯--掌管田园诗的缪斯,-帮他将花撒在灵车上，将花撒在装有利西达斯尸体的棺材上。

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