About the book: year / In 1667, a creation was published that was destined to determine the development of English poetry for several centuries: a “long-conceived and late-started” story about paradise lost" The samples were chosen long ago: Homer, Virgil, Tasso and the Books of Job - for the poem, the tragedy of Sophocles and Euripides, the Song of Songs and the Apocalypse - for the drama.