The Life of the Thrice Noble Prince William Cavendishe, Duke Marquess and Earl of Newcastle

…duke, an amiable mediocrity (The Life of the Thrice Noble Prince William Cavendishe, Duke Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle, 1667). This age likewise witnessed the first approach to a professional biographer, the noted lover of angling, Izaak Walton, whose five lives (of the poets John Donne [1640] and George…