Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

French poet

1544 CE to 1590 CE

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544 – July 1590) is a French poet.

A Huguenot, he serves under Henry of Navarre.

He is known as an epic poet.

La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578) is a hugely influential hexameral work, relating the creation of the world and the history of man.

It is translated into many languages, including English, and helps inspire Milton's Paradise Lost.

It is followed quickly by La Seconde Sepmaine (1584) which Du Bartas does not manage to finish before falling fatally ill.

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