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Little Read Today--And that's the ShameBy Martin AsinerBesides THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, Izaak Walton also wrote a series of five biographies. Three of them--Hooker, Wotton, Sanderson--are read today only by specialists in the literature of that era. His other two of Donne and Herbert are still read. In each of his biographies, he drops scattered hints that betray his nostalgia for the peaceful reign of James I. Though his loyalty to the monarchy was absolute, he yet realized that the England of his youth had vanished forever. In 1665, he spoke of `this weak and declining Age of the World,' and thirteen years later, in Life of Sanderson, he notes: `But when I look back upon the ruin of families, the bloodshed, the decay of common honesty, and how the former piety and plain dealing of this now sinful nation is turned into cruelty and cunning, I praise God that he prevented me from being part of that party which helped to bring in this Covenant.' Although most of his LIVES was written in the post-Restoration years, its spirit is that of an earlier epoch. The happy, tranquil tone both of the LIVES and THE COMPLEAT ANGLER with the latter's many interludes of `innocent, harmless mirth,' may cause a modern to label Walton a closet Elizabethan, but their style and conception belong to a soberer age. It is to the anecdotes embedded in the Lives that imbue them with their vivacity. One is not likely to forget the anecdote of George Herbert's encounter with the carter on his way to a music party at Salisbury, or Hooker's clerk protesting against the rearrangement of the church furniture. In a deft phrase or two, Walton can hit off a man's appearance or disposition: (Hooker) `His Body worn out, not with Age, but Study and Holy Mortification; his face full of Heat-pimples, begot by his inactivity and sedentary life.' His attitude toward all five of his subjects is that of the portrait painter. He does not view a man from a multiple perspective. He focuses in on one tight aspect of his face, character, or disposition, and then presents that single aspect in a variety of ways. With Wotton, he was more likely to be impressionistic, whereas with Hooker or Sanderson, he was more apt to zero in on that man's background in such a way as to present his subject as a contrast. Though all five Lives were commemorative tributes, Donne and Herbert were especially written in a spirit of obvious veneration. In none of his biographies does he purposefully mislead, but he has the habit of creating a synthesis of documents and letters, presenting them as one continuous episode, a result which makes that segment seem more seamless than it truly was. Surprisingly, he does not try to hide this toying with the truth: `I have been so bold as to paraphrase and say what I think he (Sanderson) would have said upon the same occasion.' He succeeds in investing all five of his biographies with a sense of intimacy because he so consistently relies on personal testimony. Donne and Wotton had been his friends, and Sanderson he knew on a first name basis. But Herbert he had seen only once, and Hooker had died when he was a child. Izaak Walton was no Boswell, who did not fear to show Samuel Johnson's warts and zits. In fact, Walton has often been criticized for an excess of reverence and for reducing each of them to a sameness of gentle piety. For Donne, he harps on the theological achievements of Dr. Donne, the dean of St. Paul's while ignoring the lurid background of the scandalous poet once known as Jack Donne. For Wotton, he could appreciate the scholarly and pious aspect of his character, but could not convey his brilliance. For Herbert, he wrote out of pure regard for that `great example of holiness.' Walton's easy style renders his work quite readable even today. 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