''Émaux et Camées'' (''Enamels and Cameos'') is a collection of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

by the French

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

Théophile Gautier Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rema ...

. Originally published in 1852 with 18 poems, ''Émaux et camées'' grew to include 37 poems in later editions. Whereas Gautier's earlier work was more concerned with romantic

aestheticism Aestheticism (also the Aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century which privileged the aesthetic value of literature, music and the arts over their socio-political functions. According to Aestheticism, art should be pro ...

, the

formalism Formalism may refer to: * Form (disambiguation) * Formal (disambiguation) * Legal formalism, legal positivist view that the substantive justice of a law is a question for the legislature rather than the judiciary * Formalism (linguistics) * Scie ...

of this last collection is a point of reference for the arrival of Parnassianism.

*Préface *Affinités secrètes *Le Poème de la Femme *Études de mains *Variations sur le Carnaval de Venise *Symphonie en Blanc Majeur *Coquetterie posthume *Diamant du cœur *Premier Sourire du Printemps *Contralto *Caerulei oculi *Rondalla *L'Aveugle *Lied *Fantaisies d'hiver *La Source *Bûchers et tombeaux *Le Souper des armures *La Montre *Les Nereides *Les Accroche-cœurs *La Rose-thé *Carmen * *Noël *Les Joujoux de la morte *Après le feuilleton *Le Château du Souvenir *Camélia et Paquerette *La Fellah *La Mansarde *La Nue *Le Merle *La Fleur qui fait le printemps *Dernier Vœu *Plaintive Tourterelle *La Bonne Soirée *L'Art

External links

''Émaux et Camées'' at the Société Théophile Gautier website

English translation
at Project Gutenberg
''Enamels and Cameos''
(2nd "augmented" edition from 1858), translated into unrhymed English, Sunny Lou Publishing, 2022] *Stanzas on Venice are quoted appreciatively in Chapter 14 of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (Oscar Wilde)

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French poetry Works by Théophile Gautier {{poetry-stub

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