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This volume contains detailed and insightful biographies of a number of seminal writers - including John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Dr. Robt. Sanderson. This fascinating collection of ¿lives¿ would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf, and will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in great authors, their thoughts, and personalities. Izaak Walton (1594 - 1683) was an English writer. He is best remembered for writing "The Compleat Angler", but also penned numerous short biographies that were published under the title "Walton's Lives". Many…mehr

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This volume contains detailed and insightful biographies of a number of seminal writers - including John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Dr. Robt. Sanderson. This fascinating collection of ¿lives¿ would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf, and will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in great authors, their thoughts, and personalities. Izaak Walton (1594 - 1683) was an English writer. He is best remembered for writing "The Compleat Angler", but also penned numerous short biographies that were published under the title "Walton's Lives". Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
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Izaak Walton (c.¿1593 - 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives. Walton was born at Stafford in c. 1593. The register of his baptism in September 1593 gives his father's name as Jervis, or Gervase. His father, who was an innkeeper as well as a landlord of a tavern, died before Izaak was three, being buried in February 1596/7[a] as Jarvicus Walton. His mother then married another innkeeper by the name of Bourne, who later ran the Swan in Stafford.[1] Izaak also had a brother named Ambrose, as indicated by an entry in the parish register recording the burial in March 1595/6 of an Ambrosius filius Jervis Walton. His date of birth is traditionally given as 9 August 1593. However, this date is based on a misinterpretation of his will, which he began on 9 August 1683.