Harold Bloom has written, and I think he's absolutely right, that Milton begins Paradise Lost with a powerful defense against lateness.

哈罗德·布卢姆写道，我认为他说得对极了，他说弥尔顿,在《失乐园》的开头对这些“晚“进行了有力的辩护。

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This is one of the primary strategies that Milton develops, especially in the first two books of Paradise Lost, as a kind of defense against his dependence on classical literature.

这是弥尔顿发展出的早期策略之一，尤其是在《失乐园》的前两册书中,这似乎是在反驳他对古典文学的依赖。

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He can't even bring himself to say, "Thus he relates, erring," so powerful is this defense against Homer.

他就不能说“因此有关他的，都是错误“,这对于荷马的抵触是这样的强烈。

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