This French author is usually credited with popularizing the phrase "art for art's sake".
In one poem, this author claimed that he does not love Juliet, Ophelia, Beatrice, or Laura. He described the title garment of one poem as "Delicate as the wing of a bee / Cool as the heart of a tea-rose". One poem by him mentions "pale globes of snow" that are the breasts of the swan-women of the Rhine. This author of "Chinoiserie" and "To a Pink Dress" described "acrid Venus" rising naked and provocatively out of a "bitter gulf" in a poem about a gypsy woman named Carmen. Though not Ruben Dario, this poet of "Symphony in (*) White Major" listed "verse, marble, [and] onyx" as the materials that make works more beautiful through their resistance to being plied in his poem "Art". This French author is usually credited with popularizing the phrase "art for art's sake". For 10 points, name this 19th-century poet of the collection Enamels and Cameos, the father of the Parnassian movement.
In one poem, this author claimed that he does not love Juliet, Ophelia, Beatrice, or Laura.
Théophile Gautier