Now in these two books we've seen Milton dig up and discard just about the entire tradition of epic poetry.

现在在我们看到的两册书中弥尔顿,挖出并丢弃了所有史诗的传统。

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Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.

即使是缪斯之一克莱俄帕，掌管史诗的女神，也不能避免这样一场人间悲剧。

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Leviathan is to prose what Milton's Paradise Lost is to epic poetry.

利维坦》之于散文,就像弥尔顿的《失乐园》之于史诗。

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The god told Virgil that he wasn't ready yet for the manly, the adult, and the public world, the important world, of epic poetry.

神明告诉维吉尔，他还没有准备好接受，成人世界和公众世界，以及史诗的重要领域。

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Milton claims that epic poetry is the highest ambition for a poet and then he goes on to explain how it is that the epic poet should comport himself.

弥尔顿声称史诗就是诗人最高的理想抱负,然后他又解释到,史诗诗人该怎样表现自己。

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As soon as he has expressed this epic ambition -Virgil explains that as soon as he's expressed this Phoebus Apollo, the god of poetry, stepped in and chided him.

一旦他表达出了这种野心,正如维吉尔写道，诗歌之神阿波罗，闯入诗歌的篇章并指责他。

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