Izaak WaltonTwayne, 1998 - 124 pages The best-known fishing manual ever written, Izaak Waltons Compleat Angler has appeared in hundreds of editions and appealed to generations of readers since its first publication in 1653. No less remarkable are Waltons LIVES of various eminent contemporaries, especially of Richard Hooker, John Donne, and George Herbert, essential studies that have earned Walton the reputation of being the originator of English biography. Waltons various works have generally been treated separately or in isolation from one another, but Paul Stanwoods critical commentary uniquely describes the interrelationship of all the works. This study also examines the life and thought of Walton in terms of the revolutionary times in which he lived. In an artless and graceful style that matches the eloquence of this subject, Stanwood provides students of all levels with a clear and concise introduction to this seminal figure of the English Renaissance. |
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... church and the nature of the episcopacy ( in book 7 ) , and an account of the royal supremacy and its relationship to the church ( in book 8 ) : jurisdiction is the theme of these three posthumous books , whether by lay elders ( book 6 ) ...
... church , and the ugliness of nonconformity and division . Novarr cogently discerns this purpose . Walton sought " to present such a picture of a son and father of the Church as would win from the general reader sympathy and support for ...
... Church of England . Although Anglican was not to become a usual term for an adherent of the English church until the early nineteenth century , the word commonly described the institution and its episcopal organiza- tion in Walton's day ...