La Comédie de la mort by Théophile Gautier

"La Comédie de la mort" by Théophile Gautier is a poetry collection published in 1838. This Romantic masterpiece explores the diverse aspects of death through three major sections. Influenced by Shakespeare, Goethe, and Dante's Divine Comedy, Gautier takes a young dead woman as his guide—representing beauty and his theory of art for art's sake. Six poems from this collection were set to music by Hector Berlioz in his famous song cycle "Les Nuits d'été." (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872
Title La Comédie de la mort
Alternate Title La Comedie de la mort
Note Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_de_la_mort
Credits Produced by Christine De Ryck and PG Distributed Proofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Biblioth que nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Death -- Poetry
Subject Death in literature
Category Text
EBook-No. 10442
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Oct 28, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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