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Name: Thomas De Quincey
Birth Date: 1785
Death Date: - 1859

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Biography of Thomas De Quincey
11,372 words, approx. 38 pages
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...
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Biography of Thomas De Quincey
3,243 words, approx. 11 pages
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...


Quotations
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Thomas de Quincey Quotes
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Thomas de Quincey ( August 15 , 1785 – December 8 , 1859 ) was an English author and intellectual. Sourced Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. Letter to Hessey (1823) If once a man indulges himself in...


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Thomas de Quincey Information
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Thomas de Quincey (August 15, 1785 – December 8, 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater...


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Wordsworth Circle
The Works of Thomas De Quincey.(Book Review)
09/22/2004: 2,408 words, approx. 8 pages
Grevel Lindop, gen. ed., The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vols. 8-9, 12-14, 17-18 (Pickering & Chatto, 2001) $825/[pounds sterling]550 Grevel Lindop, gen. ed., The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vols. 10-11, 15-16, 19-21 (Pickering & Chatto, 2003) $825/[pounds sterling]550 The...
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The Independent - London
A good idea from ... Thomas de Quincey
01/23/2000: 516 words, approx. 2 pages
ARE YOU a good lover? Not in the sexual sense, of course (this is a family column), rather in terms of managing to seduce those you fancy with panache and ease. In the popular account, good lovers know how to dress well, they keep...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by John C. Whale
13,524 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following essay, Whale claims that De Quincey's autobiographical writings reveal a fertile tension between the power of imagination and the truth of past experience.
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Critical Essay by Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
13,265 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following essay, Roberts examines De Quincey's reading of Wordsworth and Coleridge's poetry within the context of De Quincey's literary life and the development of his political views.
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Critical Essay by John Barrell
11,264 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Barrell reads De Quincey's essays and autobiographical sketches as manifestations of an imperialist anxiety about the “Orient.”
 
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Essay Grade: 92%
Seeing through the Eyes of an Opium-eater
2,376 words, approx. 8 pages
Explores the history of opium and its use in 17th century Europe. Examines how Opium addiction often played a role in romantic literature. Discusses the effect of opium on the work of De Quincey.


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