Compleat Angler - Couverture rigide

Issac Walton

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 185648095X ISBN 13 : 9781856480956

Editeur : Jensen Roy P Inc Remainders, 1992

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Lord of theM adeky peace, the quiet grass, The Med pond, and muffled sleepy mill; Lord of each legendary fish that swims Deep down and swift beneath that emerald glass ;W hile, soft as shadows, round its grassy rims The patient anglers move from east to west, Patient at mom, at evening patient still Peace, if not fish, was theirs, and peace is best: To you, John Offley sfar-descended son, What to your grandsire past computing great Our Walton gave is here re-dedicate; Heirloom of ancient friendship friendly still In this old book, though all the talk be done. R. Lb
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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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jensen Roy P Inc Remainders
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 185648095X
• ISBN 13: 9781856480956
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible