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Izaak Walton bio
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Izaak
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Issac Walton
The father
of fishing books.
Angling is the only sport that boasts
the honor of having given a classic
to literature—Sir Izaak Walton's
The
Compleat Angler.
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(1593-1683)
English writer, born in Stafford, the son of
an alehouse-keeper. In 1621 he was settled in
London as an ironmonger or a linen-draper in
Fleet Street, where he became friends with John
Donne, and about 1644 he retired. In 1626 he
married a great-grandniece of Cranmer, and in
1647 Ann Ken, a half-sister of the hymn writer
Thomas Ken. He spent most of his time 'in the
families of the eminent clergymen of England'.
His later years were spent in Winchester. His
most celebrated work is his The Complete
Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation,
which first appeared in 1653; the fifth edition,
expanded from 13 chapters to 21 in 1676, also
contained a treatise by Charles Cotton. The
description of fishes, of English rivers, of
fishponds, and of rods and lines is interspersed
with scraps of dialogue, moral reflections,
quaint old verses, songs and sayings, and idyllic
glimpses of country life. The anonymous Arte
of Angling (1577), discovered in 1957, has
been found to be one of his chief sources. Equally
exquisite are his biographies-of Donne
(1640), Wotton (1651) and George Sanderson
(1678).
>>Source: J Bevan, Izaak Walton
(1987)
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