Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland

ISBN-13: 9780198827818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Peter Auger

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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.