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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... Donne's old friend from their days together as students in Hart Hall , Oxford , best qualified to write of Donne and had indeed proposed to do so , not long after Donne's death in 1631. But Wotton was , in his own words , a man that ...
... Donne closer to sainthood . Walton does not change the basic structure of the Life , nor does he add factual material that might reveal more of Donne's activi- ties , nor does he recount Donne's accomplishments as a theologian or ...
... Donne's own controversial work , Ignatius His Conclave ( 1611 ) , a witty satire on the Jesuits . Instead , he simply mentions in passing Donne's Pseudo - Martyr ( 1610 ) , a learned treatise designed to persuade Catholics that they ...