[Milton-L] Du Bartas

[Hannibal Hamlin]

Susan Snyder's two-volume Oxford English Text edition of Sylvester's Du
Bartas is the non plus ultra, but it's likely priced out of range for mere
mortals to purchase. I also seem to remember a facsimile edition.

Hannibal

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Nancy Charlton
<ncharlton2009 at hotmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
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> 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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> *From:* milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu [mailto:
> milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu] *On Behalf Of *Nancy Charlton
> *Sent:* Friday, May 15, 2009 7:36 PM
> *To:* milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
> *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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