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Walton, Izaak

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Walton, Izaak (1593–1683)

English writer. He is known for his classic fishing compendium The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation (1653). He also wrote lives of the poets John Donne (1658) and George Herbert (1670), and the theologian Richard Hooker (1665).

Walton was born in Stafford and settled in London as an ironmonger. The Compleat Angler is an autobiographical and philosophical study in the form of a dialogue between an angler, a fowler, and a hunter, with verses, anecdotes, and extracts from folklore. A fifth edition (1676), entitled The Universal Angler, contained in addition a dialogue on fly-fishing by Walton's friend Charles Cotton, and Robert Venables's Experienced Angler (first published in 1622). Walton also published the Reliquiae Wottonianae (1651) with a life of the diplomat Henry Wotton.



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