If you're not taking notes in this lecture, you have to write down at least one sentence. You must write this down because this will be the most important thing I say all morning: Milton's Paradise Lost is the first narrative poem in English that didn't rhyme.

就算你们这堂课不记笔记，也一定要记下至少一句话，一定要把这记下来,这是我一早上说的最重要的一句话了：,弥尔顿的《失乐园》是,第一首不押韵的英语叙事诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He's introducing the reader to a mode of vision different from the vision typically permitted him from within the poem's more or less straightforward, linear, narrative boundaries.

他在向读者介绍一种不同于这首诗里,直白的线状叙述的界限,或多或少已经容许他，显露出的设想有所不同的先见之明。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选