Bartas

Bartas, GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU, soldier, diplomatist, and man of letters, was born at Montfort, in Armagnac, in 1544, and died in 1590 of wounds received at the battle of Ivry. His chief poem, La Sepmaine, gives an account of the creation, and is said to have had a considerable influence on Milton's Paradise Lost. Thirty editions of the work passed through the press in six years. Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618) Englished Du Bartas his Divine Weeks and Works (1598).