English essayist, translator and political economist (1785–1859)
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Thomas De Quincey
Thomas de Quincey by Sir John Watson-Gordon
Born
Thomas Penson Quincey (1785-08-15)15 August 1785 Manchester, Lancashire, England
Died
8 December 1859(1859-12-08) (aged 74) Edinburgh, Scotland
Resting place
St Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland
Notable works
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth"
Signature
Thomas Penson De Quincey (/dəˈkwɪnsi/;[1]né Thomas Penson Quincey; 15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).[2][3] Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.[4]
^De Quincey. Dictionary.com. Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/de_quincey (accessed: 29 June 2013).
^Eaton, Horace Ainsworth, Thomas De Quincey: A Biography, New York, Oxford University Press, 1936; reprinted New York, Octagon Books, 1972;
^Lindop, Grevel. The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey, London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1981.
^Morrison, Robert. "De Quincey's Wicked Book", OUP Blog. Oxford University Press, 2013.
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century, was all monopolized by printers: in France, much more so." —ThomasDeQuincey, Joan of Arc In the bull of her canonization, Divina Disponente of...
Murder as a Fine Art (2013) ISBN 0-316-21678-X The Opium Eater: A ThomasDeQuincey Story (short story) (2015) Inspector of the Dead (2015) ISBN 0-316-32393-4...
Macbeth" is an essay in Shakespearean criticism by the English author ThomasDeQuincey, first published in the October 1823 edition of The London Magazine...
Lamb, Mary Lamb, Charles Lloyd, Hartley Coleridge, John Wilson, and ThomasDeQuincey. The "Lake Poet School" (or 'Bards of the Lake', or the 'Lake School')...
the screenplay with Daria Nicolodi, partially based on ThomasDeQuincey's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis. The film stars Jessica Harper as an American...
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criticisms tend to focus on poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ThomasDeQuincey and George Crabbe. The Romantic era in Britain was, in addition to...
autobiographical novel Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, written by ThomasDeQuincey. After circulating for years as a bootleg, it was released on DVD...
style, notably Sir Thomas Browne and Robert Burton – writers who also influenced Lamb's contemporary and acquaintance, ThomasDeQuincey. Some of Lamb's...
Biblical examples including Jesus, Samson, Saul, and Judas Iscariot. ThomasDeQuincey responds to the work in his "On Suicide", and Jorge Luis Borges responds...
Vlad Tepes, Ludwig van Beethoven, Peter Mandelson, Paul McCartney, ThomasDeQuincey, A. E. Housman, Frédéric Chopin, Marcus Tullius Cicero and Charles...
the 19th century, Browne's reputation was revived by the Romantics. ThomasDeQuincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Charles Lamb (who considered himself...
"ideal" world. The text was influenced by ThomasDeQuincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Suspiria de Profundis. Baudelaire analyzes the motivation...
English author ThomasDeQuincey. In these essays, originally published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine between 1834 and 1840, DeQuincey provided some of...
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