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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 ...
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May 10, 2024 · As David Masson notes, it “does not accord perfectly with any of the traditional definitions,” and even De Quincey does not “[keep] very strictly to [it]” in the rest of his essay. 21 In fact, De Quincey may have found the concept too narrowly delimited for practical application and public relevance. Whatever the reason, in subsequent writings on literature, De Quincey offers a further ...
The directions in which the tragedy of this planet has trained our human feelings to play, and the combinations into which the poetry of this planet has thrown our human passions of love and hatred, of admiration and contempt, exercise a power for bad or good over human life that cannot be contemplated, when stretching through many generations ...
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).
Dec 2, 2020 · 24 Willard H. Bonner, De Quincey at Work, Vol. xi of Univ. of Buffalo Studies (Buffalo, 1936), pp. 22, 26; Posthumous Works, i, 277; Hogg, pp. 198–234.De Quincey's daughters wrote several times to Hawthorne, who served at the Liverpool consulate during this time, praised his “awfully deep knowledge of human nature,” and invited him to visit the De Quincey household at Lasswade near ...
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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 ...
