[Milton-L] Du Bartas

[Nancy Charlton]

I think "helped inspire" is just right. There's no need getting sidetracked into a discussion of Milton when du Bartas is the subject of the essay.

Nancy Charlton

From: Gardner_Campbell at baylor.edu
To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:09:04 -0500
Subject: RE: [Milton-L] Du Bartas



















It is an extravagant claim, at least in my view, so I have softened
it to “helped inspire.” Even those words could be more precise—they’re
just the best I can do late on a Friday night.

 

Wikipedia welcomes corrections, which are as easy to make as
clicking on a link, changing the words, and saving the results. It’s not
that the article should be edited. Rather, it’s that *we should edit
the article*, making it better bit by bit, together, as time and interest
permit. 

 

Thanks for alerting us to this need. I hope others more learned
than I will make their own edits.

 

Gardner Campbell

 





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Subject: [Milton-L] Du Bartas





 

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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