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We are happy to announce Big Renaissance Books – a new reading group dedicated to long, important early modern works that are not often read in full (or at all). We will meet three times a term for an informal discussion as we work through these texts as a group.
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.
At this session we’ll be discussing Days 4 and 5 of the First Weeke, to be read in advance.
