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...dissenters are John and Charles Wesley (March 3), the 18th century founders of Methodism, George Fox (Jan. 13), the 17th century founder of the Society of Friends, and John Bunyan (Aug. 31), the Puritan author of The Pilgrim's Progress. All of them had their problems with the Church of England. John Wesley, himself an ordained Anglican priest, broke with the church when it refused to recognize his movement, and ordained his own ministers. Quaker Fox and his flock were hounded by church authorities for much of their lives. Bunyan spent twelve years in prison for preaching without...
Shrewdly, Foster places Cary in the nonconformist English tradition of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake, with its preoccupation with individual responsibility and the morality of action. He gives to Cary's friend, the critic Lord David Cecil, the first and last words on Cary the man: "Something at once heroic and debonair in his whole personality suggested a gentleman rider in the race for life, [but] the gentleman rider was also a sage and a saint." Alas, biographies of less sterling gentlemen than Gary have made far livelier reading...
...north is the land of Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack whose footprints remain as tiny wooded lakes. Wisconsinites brag that they have more lakes than Minnesota, which supposedly has ten thousand. The north is hunting and fishing country that has attracted such outdoorsmen as Pres. Eisenhower and Al Capone, and which each year draws thousands of tourists from the Chicago suburbs...
...last thing Gog discovers is his conscience, a capacity to make choices for the first time. Ironically, it does him no good. The book ends with Pilgrim Gog, like Bunyan's Mr. Facing-bothways, approaching a fork in the road-or history-on his weary way out of London. And "he does not know which...
Family Reunion. He was something of a character himself. To his children, N.C. seemed "a combination of Paul Bunyan and Santa Claus"; to keep that illusion alive, he would risk his neck each Christmas Eve to stomp noisily atop the icy roof of their house. To his neighbors near Chadds Ford, Pa. -where N.C. had settled in 1903 to study under another great illustrator, Howard Pyle-and in Maine, where he subsequently summered, Wyeth was a big-hearted man, equally at home with farmers and fishermen...