Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (
August 30,
1811 –
October 23,
1872) was a French
poet,
dramatist,
novelist,
journalist, 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 diverse as
Baudelaire, the
Goncourt brothers,
Flaubert and
Oscar Wilde.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
Free Download Now!
