Fletcher, Phineas (1582–1650)

English poet. His principal work is The Purple Island: or the Isle of Man 1633. Written in 12 cantos of seven-line stanzas, it is an allegory of the human body in the style of Edmund Spenser.

He was the oldest son of Giles Fletcher the elder. His other works include two prose treatises, The Way to Blessedness and Joy in Tribulation, both 1632, and a poem called The Locusts, or Apollyonists 1627, attacking the Jesuits.