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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... Holy Living ( 1650 ) and Holy Dying ( 1651 ) together provide a very close analogue to Walton's lingering depiction of Donne's death . Wal- ton , of course , could not have seen Taylor's books until he came to revise his Life of Donne ...
... Holy Living ( 1650 ) , a life that ends in an exemplary 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 ...
... Holy Life and The Spirit of Love ( with Austin Warren ) ; John Donne and the Theology of Language ( with Heather Ross Asals ) ; Richard Hooker's Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ( books 6 , 7 , and 8 ) ; Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and ...