186 pp. "A biographical essay on Gautier, a leading writer of the Romantic movement. He was fascinated by antique times and classical cultures; strange and fantastic events; exotic and compelling horrors; and love that transcends class, time, and even death. CONTENTS: A Rose-Colored Waistcoat; Romanticism; A Southern Boy Goes North; From Brush to Pen; Phrases that Land on Their Feet; Romanticist Eccentricities; The World of Balzac; The Purgatory of Baudelaire; Journalism and Travel; Gautier at Home; The Faith of Flaubert; Parisian Hostesses; Poetry, Criticism and Literary Theory; The Stories of Merimee; George Sand, the Goncourts, Sainte-Beuve; The Magny Dinners and Gautier and the Last Years of the Second Empire." "Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (French: [pj?? ?yl teofil gotje]; 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."
