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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Aug 15, 2024 · In the following essay, Roberts examines De Quincey's reading of Wordsworth and Coleridge's poetry within the context of De Quincey's literary life and the deve Select an area of the website to search
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 ...
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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 ...
