La Gautier, Théophile 1811-1872 creator text utu 2003 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_de_la_mort Release date is 2003-12-01 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 http://gallica.bnf.fr Original publication data not identified Death -- Poetry Death in literature PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10442 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10442 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133242.0 10442