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Cotton's Literary Work

[This list is reprinted from Mr. R. B. Marston's "Lea and Dove" edition]

1649 An Elegy upon the Death of Henry, Lord Hastings. 1651 Verses prefixed to Edmund Prestwich's translation to the Hippolitus of Seneca.

1651 Verses on the Execution of James, Earl of Derby. 1654 Verses in which he castigates Waller for writing a panegyric on the Protector.

1664 Scarronides, or Virgil Travestie, being the first book of Virgil's Eneis, in English burlesque. 8vo.

1667 A Translation of The Moral Philosophy of the Stoics, from the French of Du Vaix.

Some verses on the Poems of his friend, Alexander Brome. 1670 Scarronides, second edition.

Translation of Gerard's History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon, dedicated to Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury.

1671 A Translation of Corneille's Tragedy, Les Horaces. Voyage to Ireland, in Burlesque.

1670 Translation of the Commentaries of Blaise de Montluc, Marshal of France.

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The Compleat Gamester. (Attributed to him.)

The Fair One of Tunis, a novel, translated from the French. 1675 Burlesque upon Burlesque; or the Scoffer Scoff'd.

1681

The Planter's Manual, being instructions for cultivating all

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1676 The Second Part of The Compleat Angler; Being Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream. The Wonders of the Peak. A description in verse of the natural wonders of the Peak District in Derbyshire. 1685 Translation of the Essays of Montaigne.

1687 Was engaged in translating the Memoirs of the Sieur de Pontis at the time of his death, in February 1687. This work was published in 1694, by his son, Beresford Cotton. In 1689 Poems on Several Occasions, a collection of some of his poems, was published.

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Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing

Written by

Izaak Walton

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