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La Comédie de la mort

Théophile Gautier’s La Comédie de la mort is a cycle of poems and meditations on death, memory, beauty, decay, and the strange mixture of attraction and terror surrounding mortality. Gautier belongs to the French Romantic and Parnassian traditions, and he treats death as an aesthetic problem as

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