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Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland (Hardcover)
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Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas was the most popular and
widely-imitated poet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England
and Scotland. C. S. Lewis felt that a reconsideration of his works'
British reception was 'long overdue' back in the 1950s, and this
study finally provides the first comprehensive account of how
English-speaking authors read, translated, imitated, and eventually
discarded Du Bartas' model for Protestant poetry. The first part
shows that Du Bartas' friendship with James VI and I was key to his
later popularity. Du Bartas' poetry symbolized a transnational
Protestant literary culture in Huguenot France and Britain. Through
James' intervention, Scottish literary tastes had a significant
impact in England. Later chapters assess how Sidney, Spenser,
Milton, and many other poets justified writing poetic fictions in
reaction to Du Bartas' austere emphasis on scriptural truth. These
chapters give equal attention to how Du Bartas' example offered a
route into original verse composition for male and female poets
across the literate population. Du Bartas' Legacy in England and
Scotland responds to recent developments in transnational and
translation studies, the history of reading, women's writing,
religious literature, and manuscript studies. It argues that Du
Bartas' legacy deserves far greater prominence than it has
previously received because it offers a richer, more democratic,
and more accurate view of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
English, Scottish, and French literature and religious culture.
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