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JOHN KNOX - KENNETH D FARROW KARTONIERT (TB)

John Knox has seldom been taken seriously as a literary figure  in fact it is often assumed
that he was hostile to 'art' of any kind. This study analyses John Knox's style of writing and
suggests that Knox was one of the most highly rhetorical of all the sixteenth-century prose
writers  although his prose was never decorative. Early chapters set Knox in his proper context
by focusing on Scottish prose from John Ireland's Meroure of Wyssdome   through to The
Complaynt of Scotland   before examining Knox's admonitory public epistles  his personal
correspondence  and his more exclusively theological tracts. The final two chapters are devoted
to his magnum opus  The Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun in Scotland  the first truly
great work of Scots prose  and show that Knox's talents represent the culmination of homiletic
and historiographical traditions  the maturation of incipient religious forces in the sixteenth
century and  as far as prose is concerned  the earliest establishment in Scotland of a fully
rounded literary personality.

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