Du Bartas, l'Écosse et la mer: La Seconde Semaine et l' "Histoire de Jonas"
This article examines the literary career of Guillaume Du Bartas concerning Scotland, the sea, Seconde Semaine, and "Histoire de Jonas." All the same, in just fifteen years, Du Bartas succeeded in revolutionizing the poetic landscape inherited from the Pléiade, extending it to the limits o...
| Published in: | Renaissance and reformation |
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| Subtitles: | "Special issue: Interpoetics in Renaissance Poetry" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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Iter Press
2022
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| In: |
Renaissance and reformation
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles |
| Further subjects: | B
la Seconde Semaine
B Du Bartas B l'Écosse, la mer B l'Histoire de Jonas |
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| Summary: | This article examines the literary career of Guillaume Du Bartas concerning Scotland, the sea, Seconde Semaine, and "Histoire de Jonas." All the same, in just fifteen years, Du Bartas succeeded in revolutionizing the poetic landscape inherited from the Pléiade, extending it to the limits of the known universe. After the Sepmaine, which recounts the Creation of the world in seven days, he began the Seconde Semaine, a poem four times the size of the earlier version, devoting four books to each day, and intended to include all of history from Eden to the Apocalypse. But Du Bartas died before he could complete his monumental work. The beginning of the Seconde Semaine, and in particular the book entitled "Babilone," pays hommage to Queen Elizabeth of England. The Suittes de la Seconde Semaine, which came later, exalt the young king of Scotland, James VI, who received Du Bartas in Edinburgh and would have liked to keep him at his side. Clear-sighted and quick-paced, the "Histoire de Jonas" concludes with a traditional parade of allegories. Along the wearisome path of composing the Seconde Semaine, whose nearly twenty-thousand verses span only four days out of seven, each in four books, the shorter Jonas appears as a moment of clarity or a pause, a break from harder work, as well as the vivid memory of a turbulent sea-voyage, at a comfortable distance from the Wars of Religion then devastating France. |
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| ISSN: | 2293-7374 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Renaissance and reformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.33137/rr.v45i2.39729 |