[Milton-L] Du Bartas

[Nancy Charlton]

Thanks, Jeremy, and all others who replied. 

Nancy

> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 19:26:05 -0500
> From: downejm at auburn.edu
> To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
> Subject: RE: [Milton-L] Du Bartas
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> Oxford University Computing and the Oxford Text Archive has some large chunks (about 10000 lines) available for download (You give them your email, they send you the link), starting here:
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> http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/headers/0651.xml
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> That was the best I could find, apart from Snyder's bargain-priced text.
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> Cheers,
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> Jeremy Downes
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> >>> Nancy Charlton <ncharlton2009 at hotmail.com> 05/16/09 1:19 AM >>>
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> 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.
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> Do you have a better source? My search was so cursory as to be superficial.
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> 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
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> Hello Nancy,
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> Are you looking for the entire text, or something 
> specific?
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> -John
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> [mailto:milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu] On Behalf Of Nancy 
> Charlton
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:36 PM
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> Subject: [Milton-L] Du 
> Bartas
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> 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."
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_de_Salluste_Du_Bartas
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> Nancy 
> Charlton
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