Milton: A Poem in Two Books "Jerusalem". The poem appears after a prose attack on the influence of Greek and Roman culture, which is unfavourably contrasted with "the Sublime of the Bible". The poem is divided into two "books". Book I opens with an epic invocation to the muses, drawing on the classical models of Homer and Virgil, which were also used by John Milton in "Paradise Lost". However, Blake describes inspiration in bodily terms, vitalising the nerves of his arm. Blake goes on to describe the activities of Los, one of his mythological characters, who creates a complex universe from within which other Blakean characters
The Ray of the Microcosm humankind on Earth. The third part comprises the remaining four cantos which describe Satan’s mutiny against God and fall of Adam and his legion from Heaven. The Ray of the Microcosm “The Ray of the Microcosm” () is a romantic, cosmic-religious poem, written in 1845 by Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. It is written in the decasyllabic meter of Serbian epic poetry. Njegoš’s religious poetic thought achieved its highest artistic shape in this work. The poem contains three main thematic parts. The first is the Dedication which introduces some of the most important philosophical and religious premises of the