Theophile Gautier

Emaux et Camees

Poetry celebrating beauty of form and artistic perfection

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Theophile Gautier

French poet and critic who coined the phrase l'art pour l'art (art for art's sake) and was a key figure in both Romanticism and Parnassianism. His Emaux et Camees is his finest verse collection.

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