Owen Felltham (or Feltham) is today remembered principally as the author of a single important work, Resolves Divine, Morall, Politicall. A collection of prose musings on religious, ethical, and socia...
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The place and date of birth of Owen Felltham are uncertain, but he was probably born around 1602 as the second son of Thomas Felltham, a gentleman and landowner in the village of Mutford, Suffolk. It ...
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In the following unsigned introduction to a nineteenth-century edition of the Resolves, the critic praises Felltham's work, stressing its value for “improving our understanding, and stre...
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In the following excerpt, Pebworth and Summers acknowledge that while Felltham's poetry was not the greatest of his age, the author of the Lusoria should be commended for the work's rang...
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In the following essay, Stapleton lavishes praise on the Resolves, disagreeing with scholars who have disparaged Felltham's use of metaphors.
Little is known of Owen Felltham; but in an age ...
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In the first excerpt below, Pebworth concentrates on the religious themes in Felltham's Resolves. In the second, he discusses the influence and themes of A Brief Character of the Low-Countries....
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In the following excerpt, Pebworth argues that Felltham's “A Form of Prayer” had been printed in at least some copies of the 1661 edition of the Resolves, leading to the conclusio...
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In the following excerpt, Walker concedes that although the themes of the Resolves were seldom profound, the literary style of the work occasionally does achieve the mastery of Francis Bacon's ...
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In the following essay, Daniels examines several of Felltham's poems, proverbs, and essays, arguing that while his style is not great, it is often engaging.
Although the death of King Charle...
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In the following essay, Robertson discusses various editions of, as well as the influence of, Felltham's A Brief Character of the Low-Countries on subsequent travelogues, arguing that Felltham&...
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In the following essay, Robertson discusses several poems by Felltham that did not appear in his Lusoria and reprints “The Elegie on Mris. Coventry,” which previously had been unavailabl...
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In the following essay, Robertson cites numerous examples of how selections from Felltham's Resolves were plagiarized by subsequent writers.
There is no evidence to show that the publication...
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In the following excerpt, Bush points out the literary and thematic characteristics that made Felltham's Resolves popular.
The didactic motives of so much secular prose make it hard to disti...
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In the following excerpt, Williamson argues that Felltham's Resolves drew upon Senecan style and wit, in both their pithiness and their gravity.
Owen Feltham, who bears the clear imprint of ...
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In the following essay, Hazlett analyzes the changing style and structure of various editions of the Resolves publishing during Felltham's lifetime, noting how the work moves from short, person...
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Owen Felltham
Critical Essay by Anonymous
