John Chalkhill

John Chalkhill (born c. 1595, possibly at Chalkhill House, Kingsbury, Middlesex, Eng.—died April 8, 1642, Westminster) was an English poet whose Thealma and Clearchus was published posthumously in 1683 by Izaak Walton, and who was identified in the third edition of Walton’s Compleat Angler as the author of two songs which appeared there from the first edition (1653). Because little was known of Chalkhill’s life, it was often speculated that he never existed save as...