This book discusses Theophile Gautier's pictorial poetic style in both prose "Voyage en Espagne" and Poetry collection "Espana Gautier. He visited Spain in 1840 and was inspired by events and scenes of his experience with the Moorish and contemporary Spanish cultures. He wished to melt and be transformed into one of Alhambra's columns. He was fascinated by the Arabic poems inscribed on the walls. For Gautier, Alhambra was the oriental fantasy and a symbol for one's life. He made an analogy between Alhambra and "The Arabian Nights." The iconographic and intrinsic analysis of fifteen poems...