The Divine Weeks

This is not a Victorian penny dreadful. The text describes a scholarly edition of The Divine Weeks by Joshua Sylvester, Sylvester's translation of the French epic La Sepmaine by Guillaume de Saluste, Du Bartas. Published in 1908 by H.M. Youmans in Wisconsin and edited by Theron Wilber Haight, this limited edition of five hundred copies presents the complete biblical creation narrative in verse. The work comprises seven sections: the six days of creation (covering chaos, light, waters, vegetation, celestial bodies, animals, and humanity) plus the story of Adam in Eden, Satan's temptation, the Fall's consequences through summoned Furies, and the discovery of handicrafts. The appendix includes additional verses on Hebrew courtship and Christian virtue. This is a scholarly theological poem, not a serialized adventure or melodrama.