This writer of many genres was predictably negative about mid-nineteenth-century French writing in his 1858-59 History of the Dramatic Art in France, and much of the same artistic concerns got into poems such as "Art" and "Symphony in White Major," the former from his 1852 volume Enamels and Cameos, a book that Baudelaire thought was really cool.
This writer of many genres was predictably negative about mid-nineteenth-century French writing in his 1858-59 History of the Dramatic Art in France, and much of the same artistic concerns got into poems such as "Art" and "Symphony in White Major," the former from his 1852 volume Enamels and Cameos, a book that Baudelaire thought was really cool. For 10 points, name this Frenchman who tore into bourgeois critics and the public in general in the preface to his rather smutty 1835 novel Mademoiselle de Maupin.
This writer of many genres was predictably negative about mid-nineteenth-century French writing in his 1858-59 History of the Dramatic Art in France, and much of the same artistic concerns got into poems such as "Art" and "Symphony in White Major," the former from his 1852 volume Enamels and Cameos, a book that Baudelaire thought was really cool.
Theophile Gautier