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As our first text, we picked Du Bartas’s Divine Weeks in Josuah Sylvester’s seventeenth-century translation, helpfully available online in the OUP edition edited by Susan Snyder: www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/display/10.1093/actrade/9780199696864.book.1/actrade-9780199696864-book-1
A retelling of the creation of the world according to Genesis that predates Milton’s by almost a century, Du Bartas’s epic poem had been widely read and admired before it was all but forgotten.
Meetings will take place on Thursday of Week 3 from 5 to 6pm at the Hawkins Room in Merton, and on Fridays of Weeks 5 and 7 from 4 to 5pm in Room 10.424 at the new Schwarzman building. The reading for the first session, to be done in advance, are Days 1–3 of the First Weeke (pp. 111–205).
