The Seventeenth-century resolve  a historical anthology of a literary form /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by John L. Lievsay. 
 - Lexington :  The University Press of Kentucky,  [2015], c1980. 
 - 1 online resource (222 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813163635 0813163633 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.<br/>English prose literature.<br/>Meditations.<br/>RELIGION--Christian Life--Devotional.<br/>RELIGION--Devotional.<br/>Meditations.<br/>English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV4831 .S36 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>242