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Show 73 between Essex and the according to the King of Scotland had King's biographer, far advanced that so 'the French ambassador in London noticed how James entrusted to Essex all that he wished court. tIT 109 It will be remembered also that lator of du Bartas. the While there is no the In 1603 of sixteenth and concerned, he was "lascivious and lecherous" in his dedicatory a Sylvester sacred ment Essex intervened 109 111 Campbell, The Second Sylvester and James, like of one poet became Prince was even more concerned not important cleansing belletristic qualities. as far literature only as are literature of its His purpose is indicated strongly "Ill And chase away the viscious and the vile. of the proteges actively. p. trans Essex, where he states that he desires "To allure feast:! was one early became especially seventeenth century als 0 committed to sonnet to the English 110 more the virtuous to Sylvester shortly thereafter popularizing Biblical literature; perhaps emphases was an it is clear that like his French master, du Bartas, Sylvester, with IT James in the evidence to indicate that Essex, appreciated Sylvester's efforts. Henry's first "pensioner poet. negotiated King King of Scots corresponded through Essex, James' first English proteges, and by 1598, behalf of whose financial better In 1597 he worte two letters 110 100. Weeke, on or supporting DNB, "Sylvester, J osuah. Childhood of the World, sig. A iii verso. IT |
