Adam and Eve female lineage, are commonly called the Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve, respectively. These do not fork from a single couple at the same epoch even if the names were borrowed from the Tanakh. John Milton's "Paradise Lost", a famous 17th-century epic poem written in blank verse, explores and elaborates upon the story of Adam and Eve in great detail. As opposed to the Biblical Adam, Milton's Adam is given a glimpse of the future of mankind, by the archangel Michael, before he has to leave Paradise. American painter Thomas Cole painted "The Garden of Eden" (1828), with lavish detail of
The Story of Kullervo centre of Tolkien's efforts in 1914, as he was "trying to turn one of the stories [of the "Kalevala"] — which is really a very great story and most tragic – into a short story" ("Letters", October 1914, #1). "The Story of Kullervo" was edited by Verlyn Flieger, published in 2010 in "Tolkien Studies", and republished in book form in August 2015 by HarperCollins. The Story of Kullervo "The Story of Kullervo" is a prose version of the Kullervo cycle in the Karelian and Finnish epic poem "Kalevala", written by J. R. R. Tolkien when he was an undergraduate at