Izaak Walton

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Izaak Walton


Born
in Stafford, The United Kingdom
August 09, 1593

Died
December 15, 1683

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Izaak Walton (c. 1594[1] – 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.

Walton was born at Stafford c. 1594; the traditional '9 August 1593' date is based on a misinterpretation of his will, which he began on 9 August 1683.[1] The register of his baptism gives his father's name as Gervase. His father, who was an innkeeper as well as a landlord of a tavern, died before Izaak was three. His mother then married another innkeeper by the name of Bourne, who would later run the Swan in Stafford.

He settled in London where he began trading as an ironmonger in a small shop in the upper storey of Thomas G
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The Compleat Angler, or the...

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The Lives of John Donne, Si...

3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1927 — 210 editions
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The Life of Dr. John Donne

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Guide to Aquatic Insects & ...

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Lives of John Donne, Henry ...

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The life of Rev. George Her...

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Lives of Donne and Herbert

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Dr. John Donne

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A Handbook for Stream Enhan...

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Selected Writings

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997
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“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”
Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation

“Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. ”
Izaak Walton

“You cannot lose what you never had.”
Isaac Walton

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