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{{Infobox_Contents |
topic_name = Pilgrim's Progress |
subtopics = [[Text:Pilgrim's Progress (|The text)]of Pilgrim's Progress]* [[John Bunyan]] * [[The Pilgrim's Progress (opera)]] |
opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} |
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Its explicitly Protestant theology also made it much more popular than its predecessors. Finally, Bunyan's gifts and plain style breathe life into the abstractions of the anthropomorphized temptations and abstractions Christian encounters and converses with on his course to Heaven. Samuel Johnson said that "this is the great merit of the book, that the most cultivated man cannot find anything to praise more highly, and the child knows nothing more amusing." Three years after its publication, it was reprinted in colonial America, and was widely read in the Puritan colonies.
The book was the basis of an opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, premiered in 1951; see [[The Pilgrim's Progress (opera)]].
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