April 3– From Life of George Herbert (1670) by Izaak Walton
Summary: Herbert gets married, joins the clergy, and writes some poems.
Commentary: The last of three of these Walton biographies in relatively short succession. We'll get a fourth, but not until late in the summer. I won't particularly miss them.
Our C word comes from this passage:
This was a fair preparation for a marriage; but, alas! her father died before Mr. Herbert's retirement to Dauntsey: yet some friends to both parties procured their meeting; at which time a mutual affection entered into both their hearts, as a conqueror enters into a surprised city; and love having got such possession, governed, and made there such laws and resolutions, as neither party was able to resist; insomuch, that she changed her name into Herbert the third day after this first interview.
Apparently it was quite a whirlwind romance, though Walton has no particular details to share, just that they were such a match and so in love, etc., etc.
I said this about one of the earlier biographies we read, it's weird reading a bio of an author that mentions a bunch of their works without having read the works themselves.
On the whole, I don't care for Walton's writing. He's the king of long passages with little detail, and they're just boring and not actually particularly informative. He wrote a good fishing book apparently, maybe I'll give that a try.
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