The Semaines' Dissemination in England and Scotland until 1641

Abstract

Most educated English and Scottish readers in the Stuart period knew of Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas's Semaines (1578, 1584 et seq.), usually in Josuah Sylvester's translation, Devine Weekes (1605 et seq.). 1 This article is about how the Semaines' readership expanded and diversified between the date of the first printed English-language translations of Du Bartas's poetry in 1584 and the final seventeenth-century re-issue of Sylvester's translation in 1641. 2 Within this period the poems were read, praised and quoted in French and English by a wide range of poets, playwrights, scholars, courtiers, clergymen and other writers. 3 As more printed editions became available the number of references to Du Bartas increased, and different communities of readers emerged. In the late sixteenth century Du Bartas was chiefly mentioned in print by writers in London who were well-informed about contemporary poetry; after -and partly because of -James's accession to the English throne, the Semaines reached a wider educated readership which admired the poems as an authoritative repository of knowledge.

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