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Aug 15, 2020 · Some reflections on Thomas De Quincey, 1785-1859. He wrote about Shakespeare in "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth. Other works include "Joan of Arc,...
SELECTED ESSAYS.....Thomas de Quincey’s literary genius is best captured in his essays. His immediate influence extended to Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow...
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Nov 11, 2020 · Thomas De Quincey’s essay On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth is one of the best known of his critical works-it appears in most anthologies of criticism and nineteenth-century prose, and is hailed it as “the finest romantic criticism.” “On the knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” was first published in the London Magazine in October, 1823, as an item in De Quincey’s series of ...
1821 (The London Magazine) Publication place. England. Media type. Print. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one that won him fame almost overnight".
Mar 19, 2013 · The image of this nocturnal visitor, which continued to be “a fearful enemy for months,” haunted De Quincey as so many images haunted him—he could turn a news report of a crocodile attack in Egypt into a scene of nightmarish despair, just as he could take a near collision while riding on a mail-coach and spin from it a “dream fugue” on the theme of “sudden death,” in which “a ...
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Thomas De Quincey. 15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859. Thomas De Quincey is best known for his controversial essay, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, in which he details his use of laudanum, a drug made from opium and alcohol that had widespread use in the Victorian era. De Quincey was great admirer of the Lakes Poets, Wordsworth ...
