A Note on Reader Reception of The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II (1684)

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 23; pp. 86 - 88
• Main Author: Owens, W R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Allusion; Bible; British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); English literature; Heart; Heroism & heroes; Hymns; Literary characters; Literary criticism; Readers; Reading; Reception (Artistic works); Religious music; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Massachusetts; England
• ISSN: 0954-0970

A little breeze was stirring, and the flake seemed to go and return, to descend and then ascend again, as if hastening homeward to the sky, losing itself at last in the airy, infinite throng, and leaving me filled with thoughts of that 'great multitude, which no man could number, clothed with white robes', crowding so gloriously into the closing pages of the Bible. Workman was a prominent Methodist, who served as principal of Westminster Training College from 1903 until 1930, and published many distinguished works of church history. There was a sort of feeling of a conducted tour about it as well as of family life, and I remember how my brother and myself only wished that in some way or other we could be like Greatheart, helping others to bliss.