[Milton-L] Du Bartas online on Google Books

Mon May 18 02:21:55 EDT 2009

Could somebody explain to me, why some, allegedly available, google books
(like the ones mentioned in John Geraghty's post) are not viewable, let
alone downloadable to me (in Hungary)? Is there some kind of area
restriction or subscription limit? 

Larisa Kocic

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From: John Geraghty [mailto:johnegeraghty at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 6:44 PM
To: 'John Milton Discussion List'
Subject: RE: [Milton-L] Du Bartas online on Google Books

I just remembered Google Books and found the entire text:

http://books.google.com/books?id=UE8NAAAAYAAJ
<http://books.google.com/books?id=UE8NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA28&dq=joshua+sylvester+w
eekes&lr=&as_brr=1&output=text#c_top>
&pg=PA28&dq=joshua+sylvester+weekes&lr=&as_brr=1&output=text#c_top

It can also be viewed in plain text and downloaded as a PDF (5.8mb):

http://books.google.com/books/download/The_Divine_Weeks_of_Josuah_Sylvester.
pdf?id=UE8NAAAAYAAJ
<http://books.google.com/books/download/The_Divine_Weeks_of_Josuah_Sylvester
.pdf?id=UE8NAAAAYAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U2YNwcQzxfrB0m5FD1dAEa_39WMzQ>
&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U2YNwcQzxfrB0m5FD1dAEa_39WMzQ

If you explore Google Books, you'll probably find more. One that might be
useful to you is:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ltUZAAAAYAAJ
<http://books.google.com/books?id=ltUZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=joshua+
sylvester+weekes&lr=&as_brr=1&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0>
&printsec=titlepage&dq=joshua+sylvester+weekes&lr=&as_brr=1&source=gbs_summa
ry_r&cad=0

Du Bartas en Angleterre

By Harry Ashton, Joshua Sylvester

Published by E. Larose, 1908

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Apr 29, 2008

392 pages

Hope this helps

-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: Sunday, May 17, 2009 12:01 AM
To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
Subject: RE: [Milton-L] Du Bartas

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
> 
> 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:
> 
> http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/headers/0651.xml
> 
> That was the best I could find, apart from Snyder's bargain-priced text.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy Downes
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremy M. Downes
> Associate Professor
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> 
> >>> Nancy Charlton <ncharlton2009 at hotmail.com> 05/16/09 1:19 AM >>>
> 
> 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
> 
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> Hello Nancy,
> 
> Are you looking for the entire text, or something 
> specific?
> 
> -John
> 
> 
> 
> 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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