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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... Herbert , George Herbert's mother , whose funeral sermon Walton had heard Donne preach in 1627. Of Herbert himself , Walton declares that he was a man " of primitive piety , ” the remarkable author of The Temple , " A Book , in which by ...
... Herbert he most notably develops this theme . In his introduction to the Life , Walton joins Herbert with Donne and Wotton : " And though Mr. George Herbert . . . were to me a stranger as to his person , for I have only seen him : yet ...
... Herbert's family , especially his mother , but also of ideal friendship . Walton says that he might offer “ more demon- strations " of the friendship between Magdalen Herbert and Donne ; but he is ready now to resume his account of Herbert ...