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but probably the work of J. S., already mentioned as the 

 author of the True Art of Angling (1696), appeared in 

 1697, but owing mainly to its artificiality cannot be com- 

 pared to the poem of J. Dennys. The last piscatorial poet 

 of the 1 7th century was John Whitney, who published in 

 1700 his Genteel Recreation ; or the Pleasures of Angling, a 

 Poem, with a dialogue between Piscator and Cory don. 



In 1726 we have a translation of Sannazarius's Piscatory 

 Eclogues; and to Moses Brown we are indebted for a 

 further batch of Piscatory Eclogues in 1729. Ford's 

 Piscatio, a poem originally written in Latin, appeared in 

 1733, after which date the piscatory poets seem to cease 

 to sing till 1758, when The Anglers, Eight Dialogues in 

 Verse, the work of Scott of Ipswich, did not contribute 

 much to the exaltation of the theme, though not without 

 a certain amount of cleverness and humour. Eight 

 Dialogues in Verse in 1773 are no improvement on the 

 last. Clifford's Anglers, a Didactic poem, in 1804, is but 

 poor; nor in 1808 does T. F. S. give Hints to Anglers in 

 verse so well as he does in prose a few years later in his 

 Angler's Guide, already mentioned, if so be that T. F. S. 

 is the T. F. Salter, gent., of Clapton, author of that work. 

 An officer of the Royal Navy, T. W. Charleton, takes to 

 fresh water in 1819, and gives us a poetical description of 

 the Art of Fishing. The Angler's Progress, by H. Boaz, 

 written, it is said, in 1789, and very scarce, was published 

 in 1820. It professes to "develope the pleasures the 

 angler receives from the dawn of the propensity in 

 infancy till the period of his becoming a Complete 

 Angler; " but though curious enough in its way, and very 

 fairly illustrated for the time with twelve wood-cuts, the 

 seven short pages comprise little more than a rhyme for 



