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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... continued to write . With the success of his Life of Donne , Walton turned to a second biography about his and Donne's old friend Sir Henry Wotton , at one time the ambassador to Venice and finally provost of Eton College . It is the ...
... continued to work on and refine his earliest Lives and especially The Compleat Angler during the years of the Interregnum , he seems to have had no plans for beginning any new writing project . When Laud died in 1645 , the established ...
... continued in Oxford , “ and still kept him in a moderate awe of her self : and so much under her own eye , as to see and converse with him daily ; but she managed this power over him without any such rigid sourness , as might make her ...