ABSTRACT
Eight years before the publication of Walton’s hagiography of Herbert (No. 24), the poet’s sanctification was advanced a step further by the celebrated antiquary Thomas Fuller – ‘the least prejudiced great man in an age that boasted a galaxy of great men’, said Coleridge. Walton, it is clear, was not an exception to the evolving attitudes. See also above, p. 12.
Source: Fuller, ‘The History of the Worthies of England’ (1662), Montgomery-shire, p. 46.
