The Seventeenth-century resolve a historical anthology of a literary form /

The Seventeenth-century resolve a historical anthology of a literary form / edited by John L. Lievsay. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1980. - 1 online resource (222 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; JOSEPH HALL Meditations and Vowes Divine and Morall; DANIEL TUVILL Christian Purposes and Resolutions; ANTHONY STAFFORD Meditations and Resolutions, Moral, Divine, Politicall; THOMAS TUKE New Essayes: Meditations and Vowes; NICHOLAS BRETON I Would and Would Not; FRANCIS ROUS Meditations of Instruction, of Exhortation, of Reproofe; RICHARD BRATHWAIT Essaies upon the Five Senses; OWEN FELTHAM Resolves. A Duple Century; WILLIAM STRUTHER Christian Observations and Resolutions; JOSEPH HENSHAW Horae Succisivae, or Spare-houres of Meditations.

Popular in its time, the resolve is now almost forgotten. In this anthology John L. Lievsay has gathered a representative collection of resolves and has provided also a critical history of the genre --



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English prose literature.
Meditations.
Meditations.


Electronic Books.

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