Despite its short history, there is a lot of good English poetry around. The earliest English poetry was written in a kind of English that is now difficult to understand. Modern English started around the time of William Shakespeare, towards the end of the sixteenth century. 根据上下文，前一个around的地方似乎应该用now而不是around。这里用around到底是什么意思？肯定不是什么周围、到处、大约的意思
