ON
The knocking at the gate,
In Macbeth.
From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity
on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the
knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murd...
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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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Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey