Milton has just been lamenting the fact that the laborious days of the poet might not result in a sudden blaze of fame.

弥尔顿正在为寂寂无名的诗人的,艰苦的生活而悲叹。

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Fame spurs us to pursue the abstinent life of the poet.

对名望的追求让我们过诗人清心寡欲的生活。

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And he says on page 884: A poet writes always of his personal life, in his finest work out of its tragedies, whatever it be, ; remorse, lost love or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table there is always a phantasmagoria.

84页他说道：,诗人总写自己的生活，最好的作品总是悲剧，不管是后悔，失恋或孤独;,这是他不会在餐桌上讲的,总是有这样一种幻境。

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Hesiod, whom I have not mentioned to you before, a poet who we think to have lived around 700 B.C., very early in the history of the polis, wrote one of his poems called, Works and Days.

赫西奥德,我之前跟你们提到过的,是一个生活在公元七百年左右的诗人,那还是在城邦历史的初期,创作了一首名为《工作与时日》的诗歌

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