The Book of Job was called "the greatest poem of ancient and modern times" by a poet who was Poet Laureate during the reign of which monarch?
Book of Job The Book of Job ( ; Hebrew: אִיוֹב "Iyov") is a book in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and the first poetic book in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Addressing the problem of theodicy – the vindication of the justice of God in the light of humanity's suffering – it is a rich theological work setting out a variety of perspectives. It has been widely and often extravagantly praised for its literary qualities, with Alfred, Lord Tennyson calling it "the greatest poem of ancient and modern times".
Juvenal Decimus Iūnius Iuvenālis ] , known in English as Juvenal , was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the "Satires". The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late first and early second centuries AD fix his earliest date of composition.