For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain ‘the sublime’ In the old sense. Wrong from the start-No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.
三年的时间里,他与他的时代格格不入,他努力使死去的诗歌艺术复活;保持旧意义上的“崇高”。从一开始就错了——不,几乎错不了,但他出生在一个半野蛮的国家,已经过时了。
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