Hell

Milton's Paradise Lost reimagines

Paradoxical hero challenging Heaven's rule

Blake's 'The Tyger' asks

Can beauty and terror coexist in creation?

Milton: A Poem in Two Books

William Blake's epic poem explores the fall and redemption of the human imagination

Songs of Experience (David Axelrod album)

David Axelrod's Songs of Experience juxtaposes childhood purity against adult corruption through Blake's poems

Gilgamesh

Epic of Gilgamesh confronts mortality, realizing immortality quest is futile

Divine Comedy in popular culture

Dante's Divine Comedy maps a spiritual journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise