Théophile Gautier

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) is a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic.

While Gautier is an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism.

He is widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Proust and Oscar Wilde.

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