Bedford Bridge, from an old print. One of the buildings on the bridge was the town jail, in which it is DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY The standard biography of Bunyan is John Bunyan, His Life, Times, and Work, by John Brown, B.A., D.D., Minister of the Church at Bunyan Meeting, Bedford: 1900. It gives all the facts known about Bunyan, and many more about his times, and the church of which he was pastor. In Appendix II is a list of the seventy-seven languages into which The Pilgrim's Progress has been translated. The Life of John Bunyan, by Canon Venables, in the Great Writers Series, is more compact. It has at the end a copious bibliography of Bunyan and works on Bunyan, by John P. Anderson of the British Museum. Canon Venables also wrote the excellent sketch of Bunyan in the Dictionary of National Biography, and an elaborately annotated edition of both parts of The Pilgrim's Progress and of Grace Abounding for the Clarendon Press Series. J. A. Froude's Bunyan, in the English Men of Letters Series, though occasionally inaccurate, has a full and interesting discussion of Bunyan's religious views and of the significance of his work. Macaulay's Essay on Southey's Edition of The Pilgrim's Progress, and his sketch of Bunyan written for the Encyclopedia Britannica, are famous pieces of penetrating, though arbitrary criticism. The complete works of Bunyan have been edited by G. Offor, in three volumes, with introductions to the separate works. Earlier allegorical pilgrimages have been studied and noted in A Study of the Sources of Bunyan's Allegories, by James Blanton Wharey, in a dissertation submitted for the degree of Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1904. In Anderson's Bibliography of Bunyan there appear in the chronological list of works by Bunyan forty-five independent publications, and ten other treatises which appeared for the first time in 1692 in the first collected edition of Bunyan's works. Many of these are theological and polemical treatises, often developed from sermons, and are of slight interest to-day. In the present list only the more important works are mentioned. A brief description follows the title of each book in those cases where none appears in the Introduction. 1656. Some Gospel Truths Opened. This, Bunyan's first work, was a vigorously argued attack on the doctrines of the Quakers. Almost every sentence is supported by citations from the Bible, which show that at this early time Bunyan had an exhaustive knowledge of it. To this work an answer was made by a young Quaker, Edward Burroughs; and Bunyan sent out in reply: 1657. A Vindication of Gospel Truths Opened. 1658. Sighs from Hell; or the Groans of a Damned Soul. A commentary on the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, full of graphic application to the men and times of Bunyan himself. 1661. Profitable Meditations. Bunyan's first publication from prison. "The book is in the form of poetical dialogue, and has small literary merit of any sort." (Brown.) 1663. I Will Pray unto the Spirit and with the Understanding also; or a Discourse Touching Prayer. This sets forth Bunyan's objections to the service of the 1665. The Holy City, or the New Jerusalem. An exposition of the vision of the New Jerusalem in the latter chapters of Revelation. 1666. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. 1672. A Confession of Faith, and a Reason of My Practice. A vindication of the principles for which he had been imprisoned. 1673. Difference in Judgment about Water Baptism No Bar to Com munion. An answer to two attacks on his doctrine, in which he pro tests against divisions in the church founded on points not essential. 1678. The Pilgrim's Progress. 1680. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman. 1682. The Holy War, Made by Shaddai upon Diabolus for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; or the Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul. 1684. The Pilgrim's Progress, the Second Part. 1686. A Book for Boys and Girls, or Country Rhymes for Children, in Verse, on 74 Things. em A collection of short moral poems, of the nature of " blems. 1688. The Jerusalem Sinner Saved, or Good News for the Vilest of Men. A homily in which Bunyan speaks at times of his own life. A Relation of the Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan. An account of his arrest, trial, imprisonment, and of the effort made by his wife to free him. (First published in 1765.) |