Théophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier | |
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Théophile Gautier photographed by Nadar | |
| Born | Jules Théophile Gautier 30 August 1811 Tarbes, France |
| Died | 23 October 1872 (aged 61) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Resting place | Cimetière de Montmartre |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, painter, art critic |
| Literary movement | Parnassianism, Romanticism |
| Years active | 1826−1872 |
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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (US: /ɡoʊˈtjeɪ/ 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.