Théophile Gautier
French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811-1872) · France · Writers · Died at 61
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Something wrong?He championed Romanticism but became impossible to pin down - a French poet and critic whose work turned into a crossroads for half a dozen literary movements that came after him, earning quiet reverence from Baudelaire to Wilde.
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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was born on 30 August 1811 and spent his career moving between poetry, drama, novels, journalism, and criticism. He defended Romanticism with force, but his own writing refused easy classification, becoming a reference point for Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence, and Modernism as they emerged. Writers as different as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust, and Wilde held him in high regard. He died on 23 October 1872, leaving work that belonged to no single school but fed many.
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