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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... kind of biogra- phy , sanctioned by Plutarch , its two - part structure including a detailed life and times , a character sketch , and a “ parallel " life for the sake of contrast and for the convenient linking of separate studies ...
... kind of retirement , " whose necessary and daily expences were hardly reconcileable with his uncertain and narrow estate " ( Lives , 31 ) . Walton here introduces an exchange of correspon- dence between Thomas Morton , later bishop of ...
... kind of Rhetorick , as did rather convince and perswade , than frighten men into piety ; studying not so much for matter ... as for apt illustrations to inform and teach his unlearned Hearers by familiar Applications ; never labouring ...