English Literature / Unit 8 ENL 0714 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The King James Bible
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The idea
The King James Version, commissioned in sixteen-oh-four and published in sixteen eleven under James the First, became the standard English Bible for centuries. Its Early Modern English shaped English prose, and English writers allude to it constantly.
In practice
Sixteen eleven, the Authorized Version.
Where people slip
Biblical allusion often draws on its wording.
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