4.1 17世纪英国最伟大的诗人是弥尔顿,他具有激进的资产阶级民主思想,他的代表作为长诗《失乐园》、《复乐园》和诗剧《力士参孙》,这几部作品集中表现了他对复辟的贵族政权的谴责,和同封建势力斗争到底的坚韧精神。特别在《失乐园》中他改造了撒旦的传统形象,赋予资产阶级革命家的某些特征。他的诗风简朴雄健,于后世有较大影响。 4.1 The Greatest British Poet of the 17th Century was Milton, who possessed the radical bourgeois democratic thought. His representative works as the poem “Paradise Lost,” “Paradise Paradise” and “Samson” Concentrating on his condemnation of the restored aristocracy and its tenacity in the end with the feudal forces. In Strange Paradise, he transformed the traditional image of Satan and gave certain features to the bourgeois revolutionaries. His poetic style is simple and splendid, having a great influence on later generations.