INTRODUCTION.
Thomas De Quincey is one of the eccentric figures
in English literature. Popularly he is known
as the English Opium-Eater and as the subject of numerous
anecdotes which emphasize t...
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Biography EssayIn 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 categoriz...
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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...
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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 tendenc...
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De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey