The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wooton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson

Walton's Lives have been praised, and dispraised, as prose-poems but it has been demonstrated that the author was an industrious and scrupulous biographer, collecting all the facts, suppressing none of them but putting an ecclesiastical emphasis where we nowadays should put a secular one.