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The traditional and symbolic pastime of fishing. Practical tips in Isaak Walton's seventeenth-century The Compleat Angler, which praises fishing as a communal activity and challenges Puritan prohibitions against group sports. How the detailed imagery of Elizabeth Bishop's 1940 poem "The Fish" convinces the reader to see what may not exist and demonstrates the power of imagination. A River Runs through It, Norman Maclean's 1976 novella, in which two Montana brothers bond through the art of fly-fishing.
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