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    Waltoniana: Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton
    Waltoniana: Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton
    Waltoniana: Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton
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    "Waltoniana" is a collection of sporadic works by Izaak Walton, a seventeenth-century English writer best known as the author of "The Compleat Angler." The book became famous in its time and above as a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Yet, Walton was also the author of other writings in prose and verse, now collected under the title "Waltoniana."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 19, 2019
    ISBN4064066133795
    Waltoniana: Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton

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      Waltoniana - Izaak Walton

      Izaak Walton

      Waltoniana

      Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066133795

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE.

      AN ELEGIE UPON DR. DONNE.

      LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF DONNE IN. HIS EIGHTEENTH YEAR.

      COMMENDATORY VERSES PREFIXED TO. THE MERCHANTS MAPPE OF. COMMERCE.

      PREFACE TO QUARLES'S SHEPHERD. ORACLES.

      COUPLET ON DR. RICHARD SIBBES.

      ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM. CARTWRIGHT.

      PREFACE TO SIR JOHN SKEFFINGTON'S. HEROE OF LORENZO.

      COMMENDATORY VERSE TO THE. AUTHOR OF SCINTILLULA. ALTARIS.

      DAMAN AND DORUS.. AN HUMBLE EGLOG.

      TO MY REVEREND FRIEND THE AUTHOR. OF THE SYNAGOGUE.

      EPITAPH ON HIS SECOND WIFE,. ANNE KEN.

      LETTER TO EDWARD WARD

      LETTER TO MARRIOTT

      M'R. MARRIOTT,

      PREFACE TO THEALMA AND. CLEARCHUS.

      LETTER TO JOHN AUBREY.

      IZAAK WALTON'S WILL.

      PREFACE.

      Table of Contents

      Few men who have written books have been able to win so large a share of the personal affection of their readers as honest Izaak Walton has done, and few books are laid down with so genuine a feeling of regret as the Complete Angler certainly is, that they are no longer. One of the gentlest and tenderest spirits of the seventeenth century, we all know his dear old face, with its cheerful, happy, serene look, and we should all have liked to accompany him on one of those angling excursions from Tottenham High Cross, and to have listened to the quaint, garrulous, sportive talk, the outcome of a religion which was like his homely garb, not too good for every-day wear. We see him, now diligent in his business, now commemorating the virtues of that cluster of scholars and churchmen with whose friendship he was favoured in youth, and teaching his young brother-in-law, Thomas Ken, to walk in their saintly footsteps,—now busy with his rod and line, or walking and talking with a friend, staying now and then to quaff an honest glass at a wayside ale-house—leading a simple, cheerful, blameless life

      Thro' near a century of pleasant years.[1]

      We have said that the reader regrets that Walton should have left so little behind him: his Angler and his Lives are all that is known to most. But we are now enabled to present those who love his memory with a collection of fugitive pieces, in verse and prose, extending in date of composition over a period of fifty years,—beginning with the Elegy on Donne, in 1633, and terminating only with his death in 1683. All these, however unambitious, are more or less characteristic of the man, and impregnated with the same spirit of genial piety that distinguishes the two well-known books to which they form a supplement.

      Walton's devotion to literature must have begun at an early age; for in a little poem, entitled The Love of Amos and Laura, published in 1619, when he was only twenty-six, and attributed variously to Samuel Purchas, author of The Pilgrims, and to Samuel Page, we find the following dedication to him:—

      "TO MY APPROVED AND MUCH RESPECTED FRIEND, IZ. WA.

      "To thee, thou more then thrice beloved friend,

      I too unworthy of so great a blisse:

      These harsh-tun'd lines I here to thee commend,

      Thou being cause it is now as it is:

      For hadst thou held thy tongue, by silence might

      These have beene buried in obliuious night.

      "If they were pleasing, I would call them thine,

      And disauow

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