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  Joshua Sylvester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He translated into English heroic couplets the scriptural epic of Guillaume du Bartas.
The ornate style of the original offered no difficulty to Sylvester, who was himself a disciple of the Euphuists and added many adornments of his own invention.
The Sepmaines of Du Bartas appealed most to his English and German co-religionists, and the translation was immensely popular.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joshua_Sylvester   (305 words)

  
 Shake-n-Bacon: Works Sited
Les Emblemes Moraulx et Militaires Du Sieur Jacob De Bruck Angermundt Nouvellement mis en Lumiere.
Tobacco Tortvred, or, the Filthie Fvme of Tobacco Refined: Shewing all sorts of Subiects, that the inward taking of Tobacco fumes, is very pernicious vnto their bodies; too too profluuious for many of their purses; and most pestiferous to the publike State.
Du Bartas his Divine Weekes and Workes: With A Complete Collection of all the other most delightfull Workes, Translated and Written by that famous philomusus Josuah Sylvester, Gent.
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 Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
A Huguenot soldier under Henry IV, Du Bartas is known chiefly for his epic poems
In lofty verse they retell the main events of the Bible from a Protestant viewpoint.
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas - Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste Du: see Du Bartas.
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 Francis Bacon
Altogether the 1620 book constitutes the second part of Part II of the Instauratio, the first part of which is represented by De Augmentis and Book I of The Advancement of Learning.
When Bacon organized his Instauratio, he divided it into six parts, which reminded contemporary readers of God's work of the six days (the creation), already used by writers like Guillaume Du Bartas (La Sepmaine, ou Création du Monde, 1579, transl.
Bacon sees nature as a labyrinth, whose workings cannot be exclusively explained by reference to “excellence of wit” and “repetition of chance experiments”: “Our steps must be guided by a clue, and see what way from the first perception of the sense must be laid out upon a sure plan” (Bacon IV [1901], 18).
plato.stanford.edu /entries/francis-bacon   (8594 words)

  
 Milton: Il Penseroso - Notes
Tiny bits of dust that become visible in a bright ray of sunshine.
John Leonard notes that in Joshua Sylvester's translation of Guillaume du Bartas' Divine Weeks and Works (1606) "Third Day of Second Weeke I. Vocation," "Morpheus, the god of dreams, is surrounded by 'Fantastike swarmes of Dreames' resembling 'Th'unnumbred Moats which in the Sunne doo play' (554-60).
Find Volume 1 of Alexander Grosart's 1880 edition in the Dartmouth College Library Catalogue.
www.dartmouth.edu /~milton/reading_room/penseroso/notes.shtml   (2433 words)

  
 Inter-American Studies: On-Line Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In an earlier section of the book, Aldridge also offers a comparative study of Mexico’s Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Anne Bradstreet of the United States (25-52), though more is said about Bradstreet and the debt she owes Du Bartas than about Sor Juana.
Thus one could also argue that Poe, too, exercised an important influence on Borges’s theory (outlined in the two essays cited above) about the aesthetic superiority of magical narratives over realistic ones.
“L’americanité du roman québécois.” Études Littéraires 8, no. 1 (April 1975): 9-19.
www.uiowa.edu /~uipress/interamerican/current+i2.html   (11940 words)

  
 Latest News from the Marlowe Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Like as the fatal raven, that in his voice
lines that appear to come from Du Bartas's L'Arche, but plainly owe a debt to Marlowe as well.
Thomas Deloney was a famous ballad-poet and early novelist who had got into trouble and fallen on hard times.
www.marlowe-society.org /newslet.htm   (3951 words)

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