[Milton-L] Du Bartas

[Nancy Charlton]

I was just looking on the internet for du Bartas in either French or English, and found a Wikipedia article that makes this claim: "it [La Sepmaine, or Creacion du Monde]formed the basis for Milton's Paradise Lost."

This seemed to me a rather extravagant claim. Certainly, Sylvester's translation of du Bartas was important to Milton, but the basis of PL??  Seems to me you could argue more plausibly for Dante or Virgil or Homer of the Bible than for du Bartas. Or have I been missing something?

If this is truly the case, the Wikipedia article needs to back up this claim. If it is perhaps an overgeneralization, it needs to be qualified. Either way, the article should be edited.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_de_Salluste_Du_Bartas

Nancy Charlton


 
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