John Bunyan, baptized on 30 November 1628 and dead on 31 August 1688, rose from the working life of rural Bedfordshire to become one of the most influential English religious writers of all time. Though he is best known as the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, a book whose characters and phrases entered the language of generations of readers, Bunyan was also a preacher, controversialist, autobiographer, pastor, poet,…
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
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Cavalier Poets, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Renaissance Poets, Restoration Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Joy
In the flickering light of Elizabethan England, where the flames of religious persecution cast long shadows over the realm of Queen Elizabeth I, Robert Southwell stands as one of the most compelling figures in English literary and spiritual history. Born around 1561 and executed in 1595 at the tender age of thirty-three or thirty-four, Southwell was at once a Jesuit priest risking everything for his faith, a clandest…
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Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Fear
