Through light-hearted irony, the poem eulogises human progress. Edmund Bonner
, Bishop of London under Queen Mary
, had been an ardent burner of Protestant heretics. In the poem his ghost laments the Reformation of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Willa Muir
She compares the parallel stories of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII
, which established the Church of England
(Anglican or Episcopalian), and the Scottish Reformation under John Knox
in 1559, which established the...
Wealth and Poverty
Barbara Blaugdone
BB
was fined the huge sum of £280 for non-attendance at the Church of England
services in her parish.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
