EXAM - English literature 2
John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Process – allegory of personal salvation, a guide to Christian life. Remarkable
for its simple, biblical style and vivid presentation of character and incident. Written in straightforward
narrative. Bunyan’s work has spiritual fervor and writes in compelling style. The eloquence of Bible united
with the vigorous realism of common speech.
John Donne: Six Sermons, Fifty Sermons, Essayes in Divinity, Sermons Never Before Published.
Andrewes:
12. The baroque style as the embodiment of the Restoration ethos
Baroque was to prove to be the ideal style to reflect what was deeply broken society, one that was to remain
in political and religious turbulence until the II half of 18th C. It always portrayed precisely that scenario:
forces in conflict, opposites and extremes confronting, and at the same time, seen to be manifestations of an
ordered whole