He seems to have had some work as the state licenser, but also more importantly as the nation's Latin secretary, which means that he would compose and translate all of England's correspondence with the governments on the continent into and from Latin.

他作为国家执照签发人似乎真做了一些工作，但更重要的是,弥尔顿还担任了国家拉丁语文书，也就是说他要,把英格兰大陆上政府的所有通信,编译成拉丁文或者从拉丁文编译成英语。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选