[Milton-L] Du Bartas

[Nancy Charlton]

I wanted to see whether any of the Divine Weeks is online, and there are some snips at RPO. I also found that there is one copy of an edition circa 1850 available from Amazon for $237 and change.

Do you have a better source? My search was so cursory as to be superficial.

Nancy Charlton

From: johnegeraghty at hotmail.com
To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
Subject: RE: [Milton-L] Du Bartas
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:10:55 -0700










Hello Nancy,
 
Are you looking for the entire text, or something 
specific?
 
-John



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Charlton
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:36 PM
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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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