TY - JOUR N2 - This article covers a complex relationship between the Bible and English literature from, to quote D.L. Jeffrey, ,,the swift Christianization of Britain in 7th CE [...] down to the present 'post-Christian' era". The author concentrates on and discusses the most essential results of more than thirteen centuries of this spiritual insemination, dealing mainly with a depiction of the most essential motifs and themes and occasionally commenting on various works' generic and technical aspects. Although we see that almost every writer explored biblical allusions in one way or another, emerging as the most significant developments are Anglo-Saxon poetry, Medieval drama, works of the Metaphysical poets as well as those of J. Milton, J. Bunyan and W. Blake. Having reached this peak, literature seems to have started losing interest in the Bible, or rather instead of the mission to evangelize, it preferred filling the old purport with new words and ideas, the most notorious 'deconstructionists' being Blake and his Romantic followers, decadent Swinburne and such modernists as D.H. Lawrence or J. Joyce. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116922/PDF/Kedzierska%20(1).pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116922 PY - 2009 EP - 184 DO - 10.24425/snt.2009.133807 KW - English literature KW - history of English literature KW - Bible and literature KW - Bible in English literature KW - influence of the Bible on English literature A1 - Kędzierska, Aleksandra PB - Polskia Akademia Nauk - Komitet Nauk Teologicznych VL - Tom 4 DA - 2009 T1 - Bible in English Literature SP - 167 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116922 T2 - Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN ER -