Izaak Walton (August 9, 1593 - December 15, 1683) was an English writer, author of The Compleat Angler . Sourced But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own. Life of Donne...
The English writer and biographer Izaak Walton (1593-1683) was the author of The Compleat Angler. His works show him to have been a kindly and religious man with a quiet sense of humor and rare common sense. Izaak Walton was born at Stafford on Aug. 9,...
Few authors, as George Saintsbury has observed, have acquired fame through such different volumes as Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler and his collected Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. Walton, it must...
George Saintsbury once observed that few authors have acquired fame through such different volumes as Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler (1653) and The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert (1670). Walton,...
In 1922, 54 sportsmen and sportswomen—all concerned with the apparent destruction of American fishing waterways—established the Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA). They looked upon Izaak Walton, a seventeenth-century English...
The op-ed by Robert Fisk Jr., "10 ideas on bear hounding and trapping" (BDN, Feb. 1), misrepresented the position of the Maine Chapter of the Izaak Walton League (IWLA). Fisk states that along with Maine Friends of Animals and the Wildlife Alliance of Maine,...
The Complete Angler: A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of Walton. By James Prosek. HarperCollins. 324 pages. $30. For James Prosek prodigy fly-fisherman, skilled watercolorist, author of two books on trout fishing ("Trout: An Illustrated History" and "Joe and Me: An Education...
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In the following excerpt, Novarr develops the thesis that due to timing and subject matter, Walton was free to express his beliefs on religion to their fullest in The Life of Herbert.
In the excerpt below, Stanwood offers an overview of critical scholarship on Walton since 1640 and discusses the reasons for enduring critical interest in Walton's works.
In the following excerpt, Epstein analyzes the structure of Walton's Life of Donne, pointing out the author's unique contributions to the biography genre.
