Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Du Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste, Seigneur

Du Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste, Seigneur (1544–90), French poet. His most famous work was the creation epic La Semaine (1578, complete English trans. by Sylvester, 1605, Devine Weekes and Workes). Partly because of his Protestant convictions, he was more influential in England than in France; Spenser, Sidney, and Milton were familiar with his work.

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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas , 1544–90, French poet. A Huguenot soldier under Henry IV, Du Bartas is known chiefly for his epic poems La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578) and the unfinished La Seconde Sepmaine (1584). In lofty verse they retell the main events of the Bible from a Protestant viewpoint.

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