John bunyan biography pdf ppt template

John Bunyan( — ) • Born in a tinker’s family • Became expert tinker himself • Have little education • United the Parliamentary army • Became a preacher

Milton Puritan poet In prison Wrote Paradise Lost afterward his blindness Bunyan Puritan writer of prose Pretend prison longer than Milton Wrote The Pilgrim’s Advance in prison and published after his release Distinction comparison between Milton and Bunyan

The Pilgrim’s Progress • It is written in the old fashioned antique form of allegory and drama.

• Plot: Unblended man a Christian pilgrim A book the Scripture Burden weight of worldly and cares and concerns

《天路历程》 He preaches his religious views in The Pilgrim’s Progress.

Allegory （style of a ) story, painting imperfection description in which the characters and events on top meant as symbols of purity , truth, magnanimity, etc.

• Three great allegories: • Spenser’s TheFaerie Queene • Dante’s La Divina Commdia (the Deiform Comedy) • Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

Significance • Gives a real picture of how life was during the 17th century • A faithful extensive reflection of Bunyan’s age • The most dangerous is his satire directed at the ruling advice.

John bunyan biography pdf ppt

• The marry of allegory makes his satirical pictures less prehistoric and more difficult to see. • His books: a religious book ﹥piercing exposures of social evils

Vanity Fair Symbolic picture of London at the time

John Dryden(—) • Born in a well-to-do Puritan kinfolk • Received education at Cambridge • An zealous supporter of the revolution • Changeable person: Propagate Cromwell to Charles II From Anglican to Greek Catholic to Puritan

John Dryden’s achievements * Grand prolific writer as a poet, a playwright ahead a literary critic * Famous for his literate critics * Became poet laureate in * Picture most outstanding contribution is his literary criticism * As a poet he was known for her highness verse satires, which was written in heroic couplets.

Heroic couplets • A verse form widely adopted dampen the poets of the 18th century.

It even-handed a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines.

John Dryden’s Works An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 《论戏剧诗》 Fashion dialogue Topic merits of English and French photoplay merits of the old and the new Truthfully drama Favor the neoclassical rules