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 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 " loves to do so little , " 1 and so he neglected the biography of Donne . Walton , who was Donne's ...
... Donne's activi- ties , nor does he recount Donne's accomplishments as a theologian or preacher . His additions are principally character - revealing anecdotes and incidents , with a missing date here , a forgotten name there ; but ...
... Donne's imme- diate hope for advancement in an extraordinarily deft account of his elopement with Anne , niece of ... Donne from his employer : " Yet the Lord Chancellor said , He parted with a Friend ; and such Secretary as was fitter ...