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May 10, 2024 · The ancient discipline “has passed among forgotten things,” De Quincey laments, seeming to anticipate one of the most influential historical formulations of the “demise of rhetoric” as John Bender and David Wellbery describe it in The Ends of Rhetoric: “the cultural hegemony of rhetoric as a practice of discourse . . . is grounded in the social structures of the premodern world.
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 ...
Sep 20, 2012 · Thomas De Quincey (b. 1785–d. 1859), autobiographer and essayist, is best known for Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821, 1856), the foundational modern account of drug addiction. His prolific output for the periodical press also included memorable reminiscences of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and their circle; his essays on “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts”; and quirkily ...
Mar 19, 2013 · De Quincey became part of the golden age of the English essay that included writers like William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, but his work was unlike the controlled form of those other essayists. “Nothing, indeed,” De Quincey writes in the opening of the Confessions, “is more revolting to English feelings, than the spectacle of a human being ...
Mar 5, 2013 · De Quincey's various statements on literature of power are in many respects inconsistent, and in dealing with them one must guard against the ever present danger of finding a coherence to which they cannot rightly lay claim. Over the years from 1823 to 1848 his conception of the experience of power obviously underwent marked shifts: the essentially emotional experience described in the Letters ...
- John W. Bilsland
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Thomas De Quincey 1785-1859 English essayist, critic, and novelist. A versatile essayist and accomplished critic, De Quincey used his own life as the subject of his most acclaimed work, the ...
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In chapter three, “Eddying Thoughts and Dialogical Potential,” Agnew summarizes the five essays through which De Quincey develops the major principles of his rhetoric. These essays, each discussing one of De Quincey’s key themes are “Rhetoric,” “Style,” “Language,” “Conversation,” and “A Brief Appraisal of Greek ...
