In his "ABC of Reading", Ezra Pound begins his short list of nineteenth-century French poets to be studied with Theophile Gautier. Widely esteemed by figures as diverse as Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Gustave Flaubert, Oscar Wilde, Henr...

For sale in CIS only! "I travel for the sake of travelling, to escape from myself and others. I travel to make a dream come true, quite simply, or to change skin if you like". In May 1840, Theophile Gautier, the enfant terrible of the French Romanti...