The English opium eater
a biography of Thomas de Quincey
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Author
Publication
2012 - Pegasus Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
124,000 words, Guess
Page Count
496 pages
Physical Format
[electronic resource] :
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25882874M
- ISBN-139781453226230
- ISBN-101453226230
- OCLC Control Number794979863
- OCLC Control Numberisbn_9781605982809
Classifications
- DDC928.21
- LCCPR4536 .M67 2012b
Description
A masterful biography of one of England & rsquo;s most notorious literary figures Author of the scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey (1785 & ndash;1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods & mdash;including William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge & mdash;have long placed him at the center of nineteenth century literary studies. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and William Burroughs. De Quincey is a topical figure for other reasons, too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison & rsquo;s biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected icon of English literature.
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