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Thomas Penson De Quincey (/ d ə ˈ k w ɪ n s i /; [1] né Thomas Penson Quincey; 15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).
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 ...
May 10, 2024 · Wilbur Howell contended that the literature of power encompasses rhetoric, while more recent critics have argued variously that the literature of power combines rhetoric and eloquence into an organic “middle species of composition” that De Quincey mentions in the “Rhetoric” essay, or else that rhetoric mediates between the literatures of knowledge and power. 24 To stress the ...
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
3. The reason why the broad distinctions between the two literatures of power and knowledge so little fix the attention lies in the fact that a vast proportion of books — history, biography, travels, miscellaneous essays, &c. — lying in a middle zone, confound these distinctions by interblending them.
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 ...
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Sep 5, 2018 · In his essay on ‘Infant Literature’ (1853), De Quincey coined the term ‘involute’ to describe an inward turn of the mind upon its own processes, which he affiliated to Wordsworth’s discovery of the true nature of childhood. 83 Through his familiarity with Wordsworth’s early nineteenth-century drafts of The Prelude, De Quincey’s description of epiphanic moments of childhood appear ...
