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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... ( Lives , 5 ) The Life of Wotton would follow Donne 11 years later ; but Walton contin- ued to write ― The Compleat Angler followed shortly after Wotton — and he composed three more Lives during the Restoration , never ceasing to revise ...
... ( Lives , 129 ) . Yet this new employment is seen as the culmination of a busy life , certainly not as a point of decline . We should remember that Walton had similarly brought Donne to a point of new beginning : Donne was 43 when he ...
... lives were written by Walton , and therefore their works must be carefully read by the editor . " ( Boswell , 2 : 510 ) Without Johnson's intervention , an eighteenth - century edition of the Lives did at last emerge in 1796 , under the ...