Felltham, Owen | Ted-Larry Pebworth (essay date 1976)
Ted-Larry Pebworth (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: Pebworth, Ted-Larry. “Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political,” “A Brief Character of the Low-Countries,” and “The Poetry.” In Owen Felltham, pp. 26-35; 71-85; 86-126. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976.
[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. In the third, he discusses Felltham's poems on religion, politics, and love.]
RESOLVES: DIVINE, MORAL, POLITICAL
In its totality, Resolves: Divine, Morall, Politicall is a collection of two hundred eighty-five short prose works of various kinds.1 Subjects discussed in the book are almost as numerous as the essays themselves, and the pieces—each of which may be read independently of the others—are arranged in no thematic order....
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