Théophile Gautier
French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (US: /ɡoʊˈtjeɪ/ goh-TYAY,[1] French: [pjɛʁ ʒyl teɔfil ɡotje]; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
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Born | Jules Théophile Gautier (1811-08-30)30 August 1811 Tarbes, France |
Died | 23 October 1872(1872-10-23) (aged 61) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
Resting place | Cimetière de Montmartre |
Occupation | Writer, poet, painter, art critic |
Literary movement | Parnassianism, Romanticism |
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While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust and Wilde.