The Compleat Angler: Or; the Contemplative Man's Recreation - Couverture rigide

Walton, Izaak; Cotton, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848375867 ISBN 13 : 9781848375864

Editeur : Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Rare Book

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Izaak Walton (1593-1683) was born in Stafford. He was a biographer of the poet John Donne, and wrote lives of other notable Anglicans, including George Herbert and Richard Hooker. He was a Royalist, and during the Civil War participated in a royalist conspiracy after the battle of Worcester. In The Compleat Angler he expressed his political and religious allegiances while exploring humanity's relationship to the natural world. He is buried in Winchester Cathedral, where he is commemorated by a stained-glass window in the Fishermen's Chapel. Charles Cotton (1630-87) was a country gentleman, poet, and translator, who built a fishing house for himself and Walton at his birthplace, Beresford Hall in Staffordshire. In 1676, at Walton's invitation, he wrote the second part to The Compleat Angler. Marjorie Swann, editor, grew up fishing for perch and pike on St Joseph Island, Ontario. She subsequently earned degrees at Queen's University and Oxford. She is the author of Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England (2001) and is writing a book about Walton's Angler and its post-seventeenth-century afterlives.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Compleat Angler, first published in 1653, has become a classic of English literature. Where other angling books are of limited appeal to those who do not fish, The Compleat Angler inspires readers from all walks of life to go in search of the countryside that Walton recreates with such vivid and loving writing. Walton appears to have spent his life in an oasis of calm conviviality and, what's more, he succeeded in bottling it for us to enjoy more and more with each century that glides silently by.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848375867
• ISBN 13: 9781848375864
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208