The essay is a contrastive analysis of the religious views of Byron and Blake expressed in Cain and The Ghost of Abel, respectively, and an attempt, starting out from some of the theses of the late Isaiah Berlin, to show the spiritual kinship between Blake and Hamann, on the one hand, and the personally intense spiritual relationship, on the other, between Byron and Goethe, and this way to find a European context for the assessment of the two "poems".