Walton, Izaak

Walton, Izaak
► (1593-1683) Escritor inglés. Autor de El perfecto pescador de caña.

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(9 ago. 1593, Stafford, Staffordshire, Inglaterra–15 dic. 1683, Winchester, Hampshire).

Biógrafo y autor inglés. Próspero ferretero, Walton recibió sólo unos pocos años de educación formal, pero leyó con intensidad, desarrolló gustos eruditos y se vinculó con hombres de cultura. Amigo y compañero de pesca de John Donne, Walton aportó con An Elegie [Una elegía] a la publicación póstuma de los poemas de Donne (1633), y escribió sus biografías (1640), George Herbert (1670) y otras figuras de la época. El perfecto pescador de caña (1653), un relato pastoril sobre los placeres y técnicas de la pesca, es un verdadero clásico de la literatura inglesa y una de las obras que cuenta con más reimpresiones, la mayoría de ellas de la edición revisada y ampliada por Charles Cotton (n. 1630–m. 1687) en 1676.

Izaak Walton, detalle de una pintura al óleo de Jacob Huysmans, 1675; National ...
By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Enciclopedia Universal. 2012.

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