FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Vision of John Bunyan” was published on Dec. 13, 1962 in The Listener. It was first a radio talk on the BBC.
Hear and “essay chat” podcast on it via my All About Jack podcast.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Allegory frustrates itself the moment the author starts doing what could equally well be done in a straight sermon or treatise. It is a valid form only so long as it is doing what could not be done at all, or done so well, in any other way.”

The Vision of John Bunyan
(Published in The Listener on 12/13/1962)