| Enamels and Cameos and Other Poems Contributor(s): Gautier, Theophile (Author), Lee, Agnes (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1781391351 ISBN-13: 9781781391358 Publisher: Benediction Classics OUR PRICE: $14.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.78 lbs) 122 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
