Felltham, Owen | Jean Robertson (essay date May 1943)
Jean Robertson (essay date May 1943)
SOURCE: Robertson, Jean. “The Poems of Owen Felltham.” Modern Language Notes 58, no. 5 (May 1943): 388-90.
[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 unavailable.]
In Lusoria, first printed with the revised folio edition (the eighth) of the Resolves,1 Felltham collected together forty-one poems most of which had been written at a much earlier date. There are only four poems known to be by Felltham that are not included in Lusoria. In Fasti Oxonienses (II, 454) Anthony à Wood gives an account of Lislibon Long, and wonders in his desultory way whether he was any relation of Kingsmill Long “who translated from Latin into English, Barclay his Argenis … which translation is dedicated by Long to Will....
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