Thomas Sébillet

Thomas Sébillet (* 1512, † 1589 ) was a French poet, poeticists and Romanist.

Life and work

Sébillet (or Sebillet ) was a pupil and friend of Clément Marot. He is best known for his poetics of 1548, which gave the impetus to the program of the Pléiade formulated Défense et illustration de la langue française of Joachim du Bellay ( 1549). Du Bellay displeased the detailed treatment of the ( outdated) marotischen poetic forms. In contrast, overall was similar to that of Du Bellay in Sébillets much emphasis on the poetic inspiration ( craft based skills ) forward-looking and his poetic conception.

The linguistics owes Sébillet important observations on language reality of his time.

Works

• Type poétique françois pour l'instruction des jeunes et studieus encor avancez peu en la poésie Francoise, Paris 1548
• Type poetique françois pour l'instruction des jeunes studieus, & encore peu avancez en la pöesie Francoise. Avec le quintile Horatian sur la Defence & illustration de la langue Francoise, Lyon 1551, 1555 ( Geneva, 1972), 1556, 1564, 1573, 1576 ( author of the Horatian quintile is Charles Fontaine, 1514-1570 )
• Type poétique Françoys, ed. Félix Gaiffe, Paris 1910, 1932, 1988
• Traità de poétique et de Rhétorique de la Renaissance ( Sébillet, Aneau, Peletier, Fouquelin, Ronsard ), ed. by Francis Goyet, 1990 Paris, 2001, pp. 37-183