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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... moved by about 1591. Gervase Walton died on 11 February 1597 , when Izaak was four years old . Anne subsequently married Humphrey Burne , an inn holder and baker , on 8 August 1598 . Gervase and Anne's children were Izaak , probably the ...
... moved with him to Winchester , where he lived , perhaps staying for periods also at the episcopal residence at Farnham Castle or else at the diocesan house in Chelsea , London . Walton's reputation as a biographer with sound views who ...
... moved there with him and some of her younger sons . Having provided Edward with a “ fit ” tutor , she 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 ...