Enamels and cameos

Collection of 37 octosyllabic poems published in 1884, Enamels and cameos is the top of poetic art of Théophile Gautier.

Whereas its first parts raised of romantic esthetics (the comedy of dead the, España) Gautier evolves more and more to the formalism.

Its poems become then jewels virtuosos with a little cold beauty without losing however their emotional load.

This new esthetics announces the movement parnassien.

list poems

  • Foreword
  • secret Affinities
  • the Poem of the Woman
  • Studies of hands
  • Variations on the Carnival of Venice
  • Symphony in Major White
  • posthumous Coquetterie
  • Diamond of the heart
  • First Smile of Spring
  • Contralto
  • Caerulei oculi
  • Rondalla
  • the Blind man
  • Lied
  • Imaginations of winter
  • the Source
  • Bûchers and tombs
  • the Supper of the armours
  • the Watch
  • Nereides
  • the Love-locks
  • the Rose-tea
  • Carmen
  • what the swallows say. Song of autumn
  • Christmas
  • Toys of dead the
  • After the serial
  • the Castle of the Memory
  • Camellia and Paquerette
  • Fellah
  • the Attic
  • Naked the
  • the Blackbird
  • the Fleur who makes spring
  • Dernier Wish
  • Plaintive Turtle-dove
  • the Good Evening
  • Art

Bonds

Random links:Tournedos-Wood-Hubert | Edouard Jean Milhaud Baptist | Alexandre Falguière | Jordan Staal | Felix María Samaniego