Sylvester, Josuah

Sylvester, Josuah

▪ English writer
born 1563, Kent, Eng.
died Sept. 28, 1618, Middelburg, Neth.

      English poet-translator, best known as the translator of a popular biblical epic, the Divine Weekes and Workes. Translated from a French Protestant poet, Guillaume du Bartas, (1544–90), it appeared in sections in 1592 and complete in 1608. This epic on the creation, the fall of man, and other early parts of Genesis was extremely popular in England through the first half of the 17th century. Sylvester had some small influence on Dryden, Milton, and other poets.

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