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of Du Bartas appealed most to his English and German co-religionists, and the translation was immensely popular. It has often been suggested that
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gave him a small pension as a kind of court poet. In 1613 he obtained a position as secretary to the Merchant Adventurers. He was stationed at
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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to Sylvester's translation. His popularity ceased with the
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clothier. In his tenth year he was sent to school at
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People educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton
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and added many adornments of his own invention. The
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He was for a short time a land steward, and in 1606
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Joshua Sylvester

English
poet
Kentish
King Edward VI School, Southampton
French
Merchant Adventurers' Company
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
Middelburg
heroic couplets
Guillaume du Bartas
Euphuists
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Restoration
John Dryden
A. B. Grosart
Charles Dunster
public domain
Chisholm, Hugh
Sylvester, Joshua
Encyclopædia Britannica
Digitized copy of Josuah Sylvester's Workes, 1621
Categories
1563 births
1618 deaths
16th-century English male writers
16th-century English poets
16th-century English translators

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