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Religio Laici; or A Layman’s Faith

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  • Beowulf
    In English literature: Dryden

    …of two major religious poems: Religio Laici; or, A Layman’s Faith (1682), in which Dryden uses a plain style to handle calmly the basic issues of faith, and The Hind and the Panther (1687), in which an elaborate allegorical beast fable is deployed to trace the history of animosities between…

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