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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 5, 2013 · 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 to a Young Man Whose Education Has Been Neglected (1823) had assumed a decidedly ethical cast by the time De Quincey turned to it in the essay on The Poetry of Pope (1848). One can, however, despite such shifts, make certain ...
- John W. Bilsland
- 1957
Thomas De Quincey, "The Literature of Knowlege and the Literature of Power" (First Published in the North British Review, August, 1848, as part of a critical essay on Alexander Pope) Every great classic in our native language should from time to time be reviewed anew; and especially if he belongs in any considerable extent to that section of ...
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.
Jan 9, 2019 · In an essay on “The Poetry of Pope,” De Quincey refers to power as an attribute of sublime Miltonic literature that links us to the infinite: “What you owe to Milton is not any knowledge,” De Quincey writes, “of which a million separate items are still but a million of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe is power,—that is, exercise and expansion to your own ...
- Adam Colman
- 2019
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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Nov 20, 2007 · While critics have often commented on the distinction between knowledge and power that emerges in Thomas De Quincey’s definition of literature, such comment has tended to read the definition in isolation from its context in “Letters to a Young Man Whose Education Has Been Neglected” (1823). De Quincey does not merely celebrate literature for the heightened emotional state that it ...
