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A study of the reception of Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544-90) that explores the responses in England and Scotland to Du Bartas's epic masterpiece, the Semaines; the development of his reputation; and the relation of his work to English epic...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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A study of the reception of Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544-90) that explores the responses in England and Scotland to Du Bartas's epic masterpiece, the Semaines; the development of his reputation; and the relation of his work to English epic verse, including the works of Spenser, Milton, and Hutchinson.
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Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford
A study of the reception of Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544-90) that explores the responses in England and Scotland to Du Bartas's epic masterpiece, the Semaines; the development of his reputation; and the relation of his work to English epic...
more
A study of the reception of Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544-90) that explores the responses in England and Scotland to Du Bartas's epic masterpiece, the Semaines; the development of his reputation; and the relation of his work to English epic verse, including the works of Spenser, Milton, and Hutchinson. Cover -- Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Textual Note -- Abbreviations -- 1: Introduction: The World as a Book -- Creative Powers -- Poems of Commonplaces -- Du Bartas' Readers -- Outline -- PART I: A JACOBEAN POET -- 2: History of a Friendship: James VI and Du Bartas -- First Contact? -- 1579-84 (Essayes) -- 1585-7 (Lepanto, Lepanthe) -- 1585-9 (Suite de la Seconde Semaine) -- 1591 (Poeticall Exercises) -- 3: Solidarity and Compliance: Sixteenth-Century Translations -- The Scottish Court -- Scotland and the Continent -- Scotland to England -- 4: Curating the Protestant Imagination -- Scriptural and Humanist Poetics (Scott, Sidney) -- Principles of Protestant Narrative Verse (Barret) -- Wandering into Error (Spenser) -- The Popular Stage in the 1590s -- 5: Devine Weekes and Its Readers -- Devine Weekes and Workes -- Voy Sire Saluste/Josua Sylvestre -- Readers' Marks -- 'Varietie breedes Delight' -- PART II: SCRIPTURAL POETRY AND THE SELF -- 6: Little Histories: Patterns for Divine Poetry I -- Descriptive Poetry -- Heptamera and Microcosms -- Great-Little-Mindedness -- 7: Meditations: Patterns for Divine Poetry II -- Poetry of Meditation (Hall, Quarles) -- The Example of Acton (Southwell) -- Home-Spun Rags (Browne) -- 'Dear Neat An Bartas' (Bradstreet) -- 8: Writing for the Inner Eye -- Rhyming Scripture -- Figurative Narratives -- Paradise Lost's First Threads -- Order and Disorder's Scripturalist Meditations -- 9: Retrospectives -- Evaluations -- Late Successors -- Endurance -- APPENDIX: Synopsis of the Semaines -- La Sepmaine ou Creation du Monde (1578) -- La Seconde Semaine ou Enfance du Monde (1584-1603) -- Premier Jour: Adam (1584) -- Deuxieme Jour: Noah (1584) -- Troisieme Jour: Abraham (1588-1603) -- Quatrieme Jour: David (1588-1603) -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Pre-1832 Sources.
