Chapter 24 No.24

Lyrical self-confession reached its limit in the poetry of Musset. Detachment from self and complete surrender to the object is the law of Gautier's most characteristic work; he is an eye that sees, a hand that moulds and colours-that is all. A child of the South, born at Tarbes in 1811, THéOPHILE GAUTIER was a pupil in the painter Rioult's studio