English Literature, 1500 to 1799: Biographies

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Cotton, Charles

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Cotton, Charles (1630–87), wrote the dialogue between Piscator and Viator which forms the second part in the fifth edition of The Compleat Angler (1676). He also published Scarronides (1664), a burlesque of Virgil, and in 1665 a burlesque of Lucian. His topographical poem The Wonders of the Peake (1681) celebrates the beauties and curiosities of the Peak District. Cotton's love of his native landscapes and particularly of ‘fair Dove, princess of rivers’, is also expressed in many of his Poems on Several Occasions (1689). Wordsworth and Coleridge both admired his work.

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Charles Cotton

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Charles Cotton 1630–87, English author. He is chiefly remembered for his contribution to his friend Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler (5th ed. 1676). His pleasant, unaffected verse includes "An Ode to Winter" and "The Retirement." He also wrote burlesques of Vergil (1664) and Lucian (1665) and a translation of Montaigne's Essays (1685–86).

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