Théophile Gautier

Théophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier photographed by Nadar
BornJules Théophile Gautier
(1811-08-30)30 August 1811
Tarbes, France
Died23 October 1872(1872-10-23) (aged 61)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Resting placeCimetière de Montmartre
OccupationWriter, poet, painter, art critic
Literary movementParnassianism, Romanticism
Years active1826−1872
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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (US: /ɡˈtj/ goh-TYAY, French: [pjɛʁ ʒyl teɔfil ɡotje]; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.

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.