TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lievsay,John Leon
TI  - The Seventeenth-century resolve: a historical anthology of a literary form 
SN  - 9780813163635
AV  - BV4831 .S36 
U1  - 242 
PY  - 2015///], c1980
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - English prose literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Meditations
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Life
KW  - Devotional
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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