Pierre Jules Th ophile Gautier (1811 - 1872) was a French writer
and critic. In his youth Gautier was an adherent of Romanticism,
but later his work became difficult to classify and he remains a
point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as
Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He rejected
bourgeois everyday life saying that it is a kingdom of vulgar men
and hucksters. He despised petit bourgeois moralizing and
democratic ideological content in literature. This book of poems -
Enamels and Cameos - is his last and some consider his most
important work. It focusses on the beauty of everyday life, his
poetry becoming compact and Gautier's poetry changes profoundly,
becoming compact and stark, as Gautier explained, "treating tiny
subjects in a severely formal way." He was widely esteemed by
writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers,
Flaubert, Proust and Oscar Wilde.
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