In her 1926 essay on "Impassioned Prose," Virginia Woolf declared that Thomas De Quincey was "an exception and a solitary." Subsequent readers have often agreed that he defies categorization. From the beginning of his writing career, De Quincey enchanted...
In her 1926 essay on "Impassioned Prose," Virginia Woolf declared that Thomas De Quincey was "an exception and a solitary." Subsequent readers have often agreed that he defies categorization. From the beginning of his writing career, De Quincey enchanted...
Best known as the author of the Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822), Thomas De Quincey was an innovative master of English prose style whose importance has been eclipsed by the modern tendency to consider poetry the major Romantic genre, as well...
a long the riverrun. Selected Essays, by Richard Ellmann. Knopf. 277 pp. $21.95. "In contemplating the poetry written by executives of large insurance companies, it is hard not to be curious about their treatment of the great fact of death upon which their...
Sade: A Biographical Essay. By LAURENCE L. BONGIE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xii + 36 pp. 23.25 [pounds sterling]. 'Put a pen in Satan's claw [...] and he could do no worse', wrote the celebrated author, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, of...
I remember an occasion in San Francisco, years ago, when the writer Tillie Olsen invited other women writers of the area to dinner at her house, where by way of introducing her guests, in the sweetest possible manner, she went around the room telling a...
I remember an occasion in San Francisco, years ago, when the writer Tillie Olsen invited other women writers of the area to dinner at her house, where by way of introducing her guests, in the sweetest possible manner, she went around the room telling a...
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