BUNYAN, JOHN

born November 1628, Elstow, Bedfordshire, Eng. died Aug. 31, 1688, London celebrated English minister and preacher, author of The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), the book that was the most characteristic expression of the Puritan religious outlook. His other works include doctrinal and controversial writings; a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding (1666); and the allegory The Holy War (1682). by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay apparently bore no ill will against Britannica from the days of his dispute with James and John Stuart Mill over the former's writings for the Supplement. For the Eighth Edition (1852-60) he wrote a number of biographies, each a work of high literary merit. Bunyan, John Additional reading Biographical and critical works include John Brown, John Bunyan: His Life, Times, and Work, new ed. rev. by Frank Mott Harrison (1928), heavily documented and still useful; Henri Talon, John Bunyan: The Man and His Works (1951, reprinted 1976); Ola Elizabeth Winslow, John Bunyan (1961), a straightforward and readable biography; Monica Furlong, Puritan's Progress (1975); Lynn Veach Sadler, John Bunyan (1979), an introduction; Christopher Hill, A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church, 16281688 (1988; also published as A Tinker and a Poor Man, 1989), placing Bunyan within a radical tradition; William York Tindall, John Bunyan, Mechanick Preacher (1934, reissued 1964), on the background of the sects; Richard L. Greaves, John Bunyan (1969), on his theology; Roger Sharrock, John Bunyan, new ed. (1968, reprinted 1984), and John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress (1966), both critical studies; E. Beatrice Batson, John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination (1984), a study of the literary merits of Bunyan's writings; and three collections of essays: Vincent Newey (ed.), The Pilgrim's Progress: Critical and Historical Views (1980); N.H. Keeble (ed.), John BunyanConventicle and Parnassus (1988); and Robert G. Collmer (ed.), Bunyan in Our Time (1989).