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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... England that never was but is always possible , the same England that Constable and Turner and the landscape painters later demonstrated in their own way . The Compleat Angler is , then , a book about angling that can be seen as a ...
... 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 . He ...
... England ( 3 vols . , 1702–1704 ) clearly identi- fies villains ( such as Oliver Cromwell ) and heroes ( such as Charles I ) . 14. Nowell did compose two Latin catechisms , but not the one appear- ing in the Book of Common Prayer , whose ...