Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 18, 2007

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Title page to Robert Gould's 1690 Love Given O'er

Pilgrim's Progress. It saw Locke's Treatises on Government, the founding of the Royal Society, the experiments and holy meditations of Robert Boyle, the hysterical attacks on theatres from Jeremy Collier, and the pioneering of literary criticism from John Dryden and John Dennis. It saw news become a commodity, the essay develop into a periodical artform, the beginnings of textual criticism, and the emergence of the stock market. (more...
)

Recently featured: Sheffield Wednesday F.C.HalloweenKitsune