1549 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Joachim du Bellay, France: L'Olive, the first sonnet sequence written in France La Defense et illustration de la langue françoyse; the author argues that all languages have equal value, and that modern French can express wisdom and truth as well as Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian or Spanish, but du Bellay also advocates adoption of Italianate and classical poetic forms to improve French poetry; he states that it is "no vicious thing, but praiseworthy, to borrow from a foreign tongue thoughts and words and appropriate them to our own" Recueil de poesie, presente à tres illustre princesse Madame Marguerite, seur unique du Roy [...] Vers lyriques Pontus de Tyard.