Théophile Gautier

VL 's supernatural stories are concerned with the spiritual essences of places and past cultures, often represented through the reappearances of classical goddesses and gods, or comparatively lesser-known Renaissance and eighteenth-century figures. Vineta Colby finds...

But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat...

One of the twelve sections is no more fifty words. The novel's decadent style inhabits the minds of several characters, particularly that of the tall, fragile, perpetually exhausted but secretly sexually voracious Antonia Mount. Her...

Without ever owning the complete works of Théophile Gautier , Alphonse Daudet , Shakespeare , Byron , or Swinburne , she read bits and pieces of them all, and they helped to shape her style...

Reviewers, like everyone at the time, were exhausted by the war and not inclined to give the novel enthusiastic reviews. Lionel Hale of The Observer commented only on the dust jacket, imagining that the story...

A reviewer in the Saturday Review claimed that the great master of adjectives and writer of pictures of travel—Théophile Gautier — was not more successful in his elaborate manner than is Mrs. Brassey. Although...

Remembered largely for his poetry, whose early publication provoked a major crisis in censorship, CB also wrote important prose, especially criticism, and translated Edgar Allan Poe 's stories into French. As a literary and art...

OW 's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol , events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose...

Vineta Colby suggests that Lee's novel is not a specific attack on either Pre-Raphaelitism or Ruskin 's Christian aestheticism, but on the more general high art groups, which read hedonism into Pater and vaunted the...

AB relishes all this. But she writes with tactful sympathy of Germaine de Staël and her younger, mostly unreciprocating lovers, and of Judith Gautier (daughter of Théophile ), who deserves to be remembered not only...

Her own previously published poems (Arsinoë's Cats and To My Cat) shared the volume with the work of other poets including Baudelaire , Edmund Gosse , and Théophile Gautier .

The story concerns the life of Duchesse de Berry and begins with a note: Writers of historical fiction are, for the most part, thieves. Many of the following pages have been stolen . ....