Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier was a French poet, dramaturge, novel writer, journalist, art critic and literary critic.
while Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his 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 authors as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Proust and Oscar Wilde.
Theophile Gautier
