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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... death . This picture remains with us , too , as a remembrance of Donne ; but Walton reminds us of the picture drawn of Donne when he was a youth , thus setting the two contrasting icons before us . Yet some days were to pass before the ...
... death , described also by Taylor in Holy Dying ( 1651 ) . As we have seen , Walton typically writes of his subjects as living and preparing for death , and in his Life of Herbert he most notably develops this theme . In his introduction ...
... death . Walton closes this Life , as he has ended all of his Lives , with a detailed and expansive description of the sickbed . He shows Sanderson's ailing and declining days and hours , his repetition of Psalms and prayers , and his ...