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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... natural temper was slow and reserved . " At Corpus Christi College , Oxford , he continued to lead a retired life : “ He was so locked up and reserved by a natural modesty , and self - deficiency or distrust , that he seemed to think it ...
... natural inclinations that led him to undertake this work ; and he concludes with customary modesty that " if I have ... naturally thrives ; he can- not be other than deferential to so grand and so good a mother . Her- bert's happy ...
... natural history , particularly when prodi- gious and strange . He refers to Pliny's Natural History , which he knew in Philemon Holland's translation of 1634 , and he knew William Cam- den's Chorographica descriptio ( translated also by ...