Izaak Walton

Izaak Walton was born in Stafford, England, around 1593. Little is known of his early life. He went to London and became an ironmonger, a member of the Ironmongers' Company, with a shop in Fleet Street. He was a parishioner and friend of the poet John Donne, then dean of St Paul's Cathedral, and wrote a life of Donne that was printed with Donne's sermons in 1640. He later wrote lives of the diplomat and poet Sir Henry Wotton, the theologian Richard Hooker, the poet George Herbert and Bishop Robert Sanderson, gathered as The Lives. A supporter of the royalist cause during the English Civil War, he retired from business and spent much time fishing in the rivers of England. In 1653 he published The Compleat Angler, a dialogue in which a fisherman teaches a hunter the art and pleasures of angling, mixed with songs, recipes and reflections on a quiet, contented life. It became one of the most reprinted books in English. In later years he lived with clergy friends and family, and he died in Winchester in 1683.

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