Author:Josuah Sylvester

Josuah Sylvester
(1563–1618)

Josuah Sylvester

Works

• Love's Omnipresence
• Monodia (1594)
• The Miracle of the Peace in Fraunce. Celebrated by the Ghost of the divine Du Bartas (1599)
• Lachrimæ Lachrimarum, or the Distillation of Teares Shede For the untymely Death of the incomparable Prince Panaretvus (1612)
• The Second Session of the Parliament of Vertues Reall (continued by prorogation) for better Propagation of all true Pietie (1615)
• The Complete Works of Josuah Sylvester (1880), in 2 vols. Edited by Alexander Balloch Grosart

Translations of the works of De Bartas

• A Canticle of the Victorie obteined by the French King Henrie the fourth. At Yvry. (1590) Translated by Josuah Silvester,
• The Triumph of Faith. The Sacrifice of Isaac. The Ship-wracke of Ionas. With a song of the victorie obtained by the French King at Yvry. (1592)
• Du Bartas his Devine Weekes and Workes (1605–6), in 2 vols.
• The Profit of Imprisonment (1594)
• Tετράστιχα, or the Quadrains of Guy de Faur, lord of Pibrac
• Posthumus Bartas

Other translations

• The Profit of Imprisonment, a Paradox (against libertie) (1594) by Odet de la Noue, lord of Teligni
• Avtomachia, or the Self-Conflict of a Christian (1607) by George Goodwin
• The Tropheis of the Life and Tragedie of the Death of that vertuous and victorious Prince Henry the Great, late of France and Navarre. (1612)
• The Parliament of Vertues Royal (summoned in France; but assembled in England) for Nomination, Creation, and Confirmation of the most excellent Prince Panaretus (1614–15)

Works about Sylvester

• "Sylvester, Josuah," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Sylvester, Joshua," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Sylvester, Joshua," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)