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Selected WritingsIzaak WaltonEdited by Jessica Martin![]()
Categories: 17th Century, Christianity
Imprint: Fyfield Books Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (80 pages) (Pub. Jul 1997) 9781857543070 Out of Stock
A Diplomat's advice to Diplomats
That, to be in safety himself, and serviceable to his Country, he should always, & upon all occasions speak the truth (it seems aState Paradox) for, says Sir Henry Wotton, you shall never be believed; and by this means, your truth will secure yourself, if you shall ever be called to any account; and 'twill also put your Adversaries (who will still hunt counter) to a loss in all their dispositions and undertakings.
Izaak Walton (1593-1683) is best known for his graceful, lucid if not always practical book The Compleat Angler. It has stayed in print since it first appeared in 1653.
More than just a writer of devout pastoral, Walton is one of the fathers of modern literary biography. This selection includes his lively portraits of Donne, Herbert and others, and reminiscences of Jonson written in old age. A devoted churchman, in his writing Walton helps define what it was to be Anglican at a time when the Church was in upheaval. One historian said Walton `invented Anglicanism'. He certainly shaped it in ways which are potent today. Walton is here set in a context which complicates and then corrects the reductive view of him, encapsulated by Gosse, as `that immortal piscatory linen-draper'.
Table of Contents
Introduction A Note on the Selection Further Reading Prose Compleat Angler Life of Dr. John Donne Life of Sir Henry Wotton Life of Mr. Richard Hooker Life of Mr. George Herbert Life of Dr. Robert Sanderson Notes for a Life of John Hales Love and Truth Notes on Ben Jonson Poems Inscription on his Marriage Chest An Elegie upon Dr. Donne On a Portrait of Donne Epitaph on David Hookham Couplet on Dr. Richard Sibbes On the Death of my Dear Friend Mr. William Cartwright To my Reverend Friend the Author of the Synagogue Epitaph on his Second Wife Commendatory Verses to Jeremiah Rich Will Izaak Walton's Will Appendix: revisions to the Life of Donne |
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