The contemporary renown and the subsequent literary reputation of Josuah Sylvester have been inextricably tied to that of Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur Du Bartas, the French Huguenot poet whose works Sylvester translated. During the Renaissance, Du Bartas was not only lauded in his own country but received almost universal renown, primarily for his hexameral La Semaine ou Création du monde (1578) and its sequel, La Seconde Semaine (1584). The Semaines were provided with an extensive commentary written between 1581 and 1601 by the Calvinist clergyman Simon Goulart. They underwent numerous contemporary editions (forty-two for La Semaine and twenty-nine for La Seconde Semaine) and were widely translated. Du Bartas was especially admired in Great Britain. While Sylvester's translations are the most extensive and the most significant, published in numerous editions through 1641, some writings by Du Bartas were translated by Sir Philip Sidney and Thomas Churchyard (works now lost), as well as...