But the problem of one's being called to be a great poet is that one may have an inkling or some sense of a promise of future greatness but nothing really to show for it yet.

但是一个人被召唤去变成伟大诗人的问题在于，他可能会有一丝感觉他将来必定是伟大的，但还没有什么能够真正表明这一切。

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Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

米尔顿卒于1674年，在死前用了20年左右奠定了其伟大英语诗人的地位。

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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。

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But the problem of one's being called to be a great poet is that one may have an inkling or some sense of a promise of future greatness but nothing really to show for it yet.

但是一个人被召唤去变成伟大诗人的问题在于,他可能会有一丝感觉他将来必定是伟大的,但还没有什么能够真正表明这一切。

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He's beginning to put aside all of those literary anxieties induced by his reading of Shakespeare, and it's as if he's more and more willing to use as a kind of literary assistant, or helper, Spenser: the great poet of holy matrimony and married sexual bliss.

他开始抛开那些阅读莎士比亚,得到的文学焦虑感，他似乎越来越愿意,使用斯宾塞作为文学助手，斯宾塞：,是神圣婚姻和婚姻性生活祝福的伟大诗人。

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