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théophile gautier photographed by nadar parnassianism , romanticism 23 october 1872 neuilly-sur-seine , france tarbes , france cimetière de montmartre théophile gautier 30 august 1811 théophile gautier by nadar c1856-1 . jpg théophile gautier
 pierre jules théophile gautier writer , poet , painter , art critic
théophile gautier

pierre jules théophile gautier -lrb- ; 30 august 1811 -- 23 october 1872 -rrb- was a french poet , dramatist , novelist , journalist , and art 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 writers as diverse as balzac , baudelaire , the goncourt brothers , flaubert , ezra pound , t. s. eliot , henry james , proust and oscar wilde .
