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 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