Slough of Despond
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The Slough of Despond is a fictional bog in John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, into which the protagonist Christian sinks under the weight of his sins and his sense of guilt for them.
Satirical illustration by James Gillray (1793) of politician Charles James Fox in the Slough of Despond
John Bunyan
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John Bunyan was an English writer and nonconformist preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model. In
Slough of Despond
…The Slough of Despond ( or ; "swamp of despair") is a fictional bog in John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, into which the protagonist Christian sinks under the weight of his sins and his sense of guilt for them. It is…
1684 portrait of Bunyan by Thomas Sadler
Bunyan's High Street cottage in Elstow
Bunyan in prison, as imagined in 1881
Bunyan's effigy on his grave in Bunhill Fields