The Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert & Robert Sanderson
By Izaak Walton
1927
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Walton's Lives have been praised, and dispraised, as prose-poems but it has been demonstrated that the author was an industrious and scrupulous biographer, collecting all the facts, suppressing none of them but putting an ecclesiastical emphasis where we nowadays should put a secular one.
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