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 Fall of Princes of my sorrowe, roote of my heavinesse, That whilom were the sourse of my gladnèsse, When both our joyes by wille were so disposed, Under one key our hearts to be enclosed.— </poem> The poem tells about lives and tragic deaths of many historical and legendary persons. A sixteenth-century poem "The Mirror for Magistrates" by various authors is a sequel to "The Fall of Princes". The Fall of Princes The Fall of Princes is a long poem by English poet John Lydgate. It is based on Giovanni Boccaccio's work "De Casibus Virorum Illustrium", which Lydgate knew in a French translation