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, 1...
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 b...
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, one...
Gary A. Stringer, editor The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies. Indiana University Press, 1046 pages, $69.95 After the detail of these thousand pages, with their exhaustive bibliographical analyses, lists of textual variants, and summaries of critical...
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 John Donne Summary of Poems Part 2 Loves Deitie: The poet wishes he could speak with the ghost of some lover who died before the god of Love was born, so that he might confirm his belief that no man then...
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