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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... Thomas Grinsell of London around 1608 , and shortly after this time , Walton took up residence with the Grinsells on Chancery Lane . In about 1611 , Walton was apprenticed to Grinsell , probably a draper , who was a member of the ...
... Thomas , bishop of Durham Appleton House , Yorkshire , 61 Ascham , Roger , Toxophilus , 66 Ashmole , Elias : History of the Order of the Garter , 5 ; quoted , 5-6 Astle , Reverend M. , 81 Aubrey , John , 9 Augustine , Saint , as ...
... Thomas , " Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College , " 99 Great Tew , Oxford , 8 , 50. See also Cary , Sir Lucius ; Hales , John Greene , Graham , The Power and the Glory , 100 Greenslade , B. D. , as critic , quoted , 79 Grinsell , ...