The chaste poet was unable to pass uninjured in that wild surrounding waste. This violence was so terrible that not even his mother, the muse Calliope, could save him.

这端正老实的诗人无法在这野蛮的进攻中,全身而退，巴克坎忒斯的暴行是如此可怕,就连俄耳甫斯的母亲，身为缪斯之一的克莱俄帕也救不了他。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now we know that Milton was blind probably well before the time he began writing Paradise Lost, and therefore, of course, he was then unable to read.

现在我们知道弥尔顿很可能失明了,这早于他开始写《失乐园》的时间，因此，他不能通过眼睛阅读。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选