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Izaak Walton, detail of an oil painting by Jacob Huysmans, c. 1675; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Izaak Walton Summary
Izaak Walton was an English biographer and author of The Compleat Angler (1653), a pastoral discourse on the joys and stratagems of fishing that has been one of the most frequently reprinted books in English literature. After a few years of schooling, Walton was apprenticed to a kinsman in the