Milton's Paradise Lost reimagines

Hell

Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell argues that contraries are essential for progression

Divine Comedy in popular culture

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

Blake's 'The Tyger' asks

Can beauty and terror coexist in creation?

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita satirizes Russian bureaucracy and atheism

Milton: A Poem in Two Books

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

Gilgamesh

Epic of Gilgamesh confronts mortality, realizing immortality quest is futile