Life of Johnson.
TOHNSON praised John Bunyan highly. “His ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and the conduct of the story; and it has had the best evidence of its merit, the general and continued approbation of mankind. Few books, I believe, have had a more extensive sale. It is remarkable, that it begins very much like the poem of Dante; yet there was no translation of Dante when Bunyan wrote. There is reason to think that he had read Spenser.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20278, 12 April 1934, Page 8
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