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FELTHAM, or FELLTHAM, OWEN (d. 1668)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FELTHAM, or FELLTHAM, See also:OWEN (d. 1668)  , See also:English moralist, was the son of See also:Thomas See also:Feltham or Felltham of Mutford in See also:Suffolk . The date of his See also:birth is given variously as 1602 and 1609 . Hs is famous chiefly as the author of a See also:volume entitled Resolves,Divine, Moral and See also:Political, containing one See also:hundred See also:short and pithy essays . To later issues of the Resolves Feltham appended Lusoria, a collection of See also:forty poems . Hardly anything is known of his See also:life except that T . See also:Randolph, the adopted " son" of See also:Ben See also:Jonson, addressed a poem of compliment to him, and became his friend, and that Feltham attacked Ben Jonson in an See also:ode shortly before the aged poet's See also:death, but contributed a flattering See also:elegy to the Jonsonus See also:Virbius in 1638 . See also:Early in life Feltham visited See also:Flanders, and published observations in 1652 under the See also:title of A Brief See also:Character of the See also:Low Countries . He was a strict high-churchman and a royalist; he even described See also:Charles I. as " See also:Christ the Second." See also:Hallam stigmatized Feltham as one of our worst writers . He has not, indeed, the elegance of See also:Bacon, whom he emulated, and he is often obscure and affected; but his copious imagery and genuine penetration give his reflections a certain See also:charm . To the See also:middle classes of the 17th See also:century he seemed a See also:heaven-sent philosopher and See also:guide, and was only less popular than See also:Francis See also:Quarles the poet . Eleven See also:editions of the Resolves appeared before 17oo . Later . editions by See also:James See also:Cumming (See also:London, 1806; much garbled; has See also:account of Feltham's life and writings), and O .

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Smeaton in " See also:Temple See also:Classics " See also:series (London, 1904) .

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