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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... king's return - one of many such effusions popular at the time - which was printed in his friend Alexander Brome's ... King ! the King's return'd : and now Let's banish all sad thoughts and sing We have our Laws , and have our King ...
... King had appeared , and engaged himself by his publick writings now extant : and , his Majesty discoursing with Mr. Donne , concerning many of the reasons which are usually urged against the taking of those Oaths ; apprehended , such a ...
... king also of England , sent for Wotton and appointed him ambassador to Venice , and how Wotton advanced the ... king's attention how an ambassador might pleasantly be defined as " Legatus est vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentiendum ...