Lives (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Izaak Walton
- First Published: 1640
- Type of Work: Biography
- Principal Characters: John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, Robert Sanderson
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion and spirituality, Biography
- Subjects: Literature, Religion, Poetry or poets, Sixteenth century, Clergy, Nobility
Izaak Walton lived through most of the turbulent years of the seventeenth century, but he remained at heart an Elizabethan, and it is from this perspective that he wrote his fine biographies, lives of outstanding clergymen and scholars of his day: John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Robert Sanderson. The works appeared over a period of almost forty years, but the stable philosophy of their author gives them many points of similarity.
While Walton’s subjects were unquestionably men of vastly different personalities, his own character casts an almost...
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