Classic Read

Lots of famous phrases had their first appearance in this book. It's an epic poem that took me about 30 pages to realize didn't rhyme. I think the meter might not really do the text much favors either, but a lot of the great prose comes from really pushing against the form, like many great innovators of early modernity did. This is basically just some of the first biblical fan fiction, but that's also like saying As You Like It was just a dumb rom-com.