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The play The Opium Eater by Andrew Dallmeyer was based on Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, [16] and has been published by Capercaillie Books. [17] [18] In 1962, Vincent Price starred in the full-length film Confessions of an Opium Eater, which was a reimagining of De Quincey's Confessions by Hollywood producer Albert Zugsmith.
Jan 31, 2017 · In his 1821 memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar, essayist Thomas De Quincey, the famed “Opium-eater” himself, proudly attributes the superior power of his opium-infused dreams to his natural disposition. He is a real philosopher on his own, but the opium he consumes intensifies his ...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, autobiographical narrative by English author Thomas De Quincey, first published in The London Magazine in two parts in 1821, then as a book, with an appendix, in 1822. The avowed purpose of the first version of the Confessions was to warn the reader of the
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De Quincey was an odd one. Born in England in 1785, he was a sickly child, and only grew to five feet. He was an outsider. But he was remarkably intelligent. From an early age he loved philosophy, Greek and literature, especially the poetry of Wordsworth. As he tells us in Confessions, one of his school masters observed: “that boy could harangue an...
Many well-known figures were influenced by De Quincey. Edgar Allan Poe drew on Confessions and other works by De Quincey in his short story The Purloined Letter (1844). Charles Baudelaire’s Les Paradis Artificiels(1860) was a translation and adaptation of Confessions. But beyond direct literary influence, De Quincey, as writer Lucy Inglis puts it, ...
Confessions is short – my Penguin copy is under 100 pages. Yet it is a dense and strange work: at once a story, a memoir and an essay. Astoundingly poetic, it is also burdened with far too many references to literature and philosophy (thisis one of the many rabbit holes you could go down) and digressions and introductions and preliminary remarks an...
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May 22, 2018 · The Conversation: The 19th century book that spawned the opioid crisis. Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was the first modern drug memoir and set the tone for opium use for decades. Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy), a group of deep red flowers, buds and seed pods. Opium is extracted from the latex of the unripe seed pods.
Oct 10, 2016 · The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir. Thomas De Quincey’s intoxicating prose derived its power from the writer’s opium habit. Long before he tried opium, Thomas De Quincey, the English ...
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June 13, 2017. The Opium Eaters, a comedy, based on the sleeping habits of Thomas de Quincey and Marcel Proust. Characters: Marcel Proust. Thomas de Quincey. The curtain goes up on a bedroom scene. Two of the walls are cork-lined, the third is a bare stone wall roughly coated with Roman cement.
