Du Bartas'' Legacy in England and Scotland

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.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: Introduction: The World as a Book


• Part I: A Jacobean Poet


• 2: History of a Friendship: James VI and Du Bartas


• 3: Solidarity and Compliance: Sixteenth-Century Translations


• 4: Curating the Protestant Imagination


• 5: Devine Weekes and its Readers


• Part II: Scriptural Poetry and the Self


• 6: Little Histories: Patterns for Divine Poetry I


• 7: Meditations: Patterns for Divine Poetry II


• 8: Writing for the Inner Eye


• 9: Retrospectives


• Appendix: Synopsis of the Semaines

About the author

Peter Auger is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. He previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London, and taught at Exeter College, Oxford. His work has addressed Franco-British literary relations, translation and imitation practices, literary reception, manuscript studies, epic and religious poetry, and language learning.

Summary

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.

Additional text

...an academic monograph that affords great reading pleasure.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Auger, Peter (Lecturer in Early Modern Literature Auger, Auger Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2019
• EAN: 9780198827818
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882781-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, POETRY / European / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets