Théophile Gautier
French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)
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Théophile Gautier was a French writer and critic of the 19th century who worked across multiple forms—poetry, drama, novels, journalism, and art criticism—making him an influential figure in shaping literary and cultural taste of his era. His work matters because he helped define important aesthetic movements of the time and his critical writings significantly influenced how literature and art were understood and evaluated during the 1800s.
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- Born
- 30 August 1811
- Died
- 23 October 1872
- Works
- 1498
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- Emali i kamei
- Constantinople
- Mademoiselle de Maupin
- Le capitaine Fracasse
- La comédie de la mort et autres poèmes
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Writing · Tarbes, France
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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.
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