His labours were stopped by the Act of Conventicles, and Bunyan was a prisoner in Bedford jail for twelve years.
Bunyan became a preacher of God's word.
Bunyan is an extraordinary figure; we must study him, as well as his books.
Bunyan was the first writer to appeal to this pleasant and natural inclination in a way that all could understand.
Thus Shakespeare and Bacon wrote largely in the reign of James I, but their work is Elizabethan in spirit; and Bunyan is no less a Puritan because he happened to write after the Restoration.
Bunyan was a poor, uneducated tinker.