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The Seventeenth-century resolve : a historical anthology of a literary form / edited by John L. Lievsay. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015], ©1980. - 1 online resource (222 pages)

Includes bibliographical references 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 -- its flowering and decline.


English.

ISBN: 9780813163635 0813163633 1322601208 9781322601205

Source: 22573/ctt1299m73 JSTOR

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1500-1700

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Meditations.
English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Méditations.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Devotional.
RELIGION--Devotional.
RELIGION--Christian Rituals & Practice--General.
English prose literature--Early modern
Meditations

LC Class. No.: BV4831 .S36

Dewey Class. No.: 242