English essayist and poet, best known for his
essays Resolves Divine, Morall, and Politicall,
in which the striking images (some borrowed by
the poet Henry Vaughan) are held to be more
original than the ideas.
Felltham wrote the first edition of Resolves
(1623), which contained 100 essays, when he was
18. The second edition, Resolves, a Second
Centurie, published in 1628, contained a further
100 essays. After becoming the Earl of Thomond’s
steward sometime before 1640, Felltham printed A
brief Character of the Low Countries under the
States (1652), which appeared in a reissue of
the Resolves in 1661 together with 41 poems,
some letters, and occasional pieces. Felltham
spent most of his life at Great Billing,
Northamptonshire, or at the Earl of Thomond’s
London house.
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