– Abirlal Mukherjee (Mukhopadhyay), Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), Website: https://abirlalmukhopadhyay.in
KEYWORDS: Prose in the Age of Milton, Prose in Restoration Age, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon Writers, The Parliamentary Party and The Royalists, Restoration of the Monarchy, History of England
Probably the most prominent divine of his time, born to a barber and studied at Cambridge but later left for Oxford. Like most of the thinkers and Scholars of Oxford and Cambridge he had to take a side, he supported the Royalists like Edward Hyde, his contemporary who later became the Earl of Clarendon. He was imprisoned by the Parliamentary Party when they came to power. But after Restoration of the Monarchy he became the Irish Bishoprics of Down and Dromore and later died in Ireland in 1667. He was considered as an impressive Preacher and the quality got reflected in his prose works as well which consists of tracts, sermons, and theological books. His sermons were very popular. He seems to be fond of rhetorical figures like simile, apostrophe and use of long sentences like most his comtemporary prose writers.
WORKS:
1. The Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
2. Holy Living (1650)
3. Holy Dying (1651)
Also Read:
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609 – 1674) – Prose Writer During The Age of Milton (1608 – 1674)
Thomas Hobbes (1558 – 1679)
Thomas Fuller (1608 – 1661)