The English Opium-Eater : A Biography of Thomas De Quincey Paperback / softback
by Robert Morrison
Paperback / softback
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Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer. Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle - have long placed him at the centre of 19th-century literary studies.
De Quincey also stands at the meeting point in the culture wars between Edinburgh and London; between high art and popular taste; and between the devotees of the Romantic imagination and those of hack journalism.
His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Burroughs and Peter Ackroyd. De Quincey is a fascinating (and 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's biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected essayist, critic and biographer.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:11/11/2010
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- ISBN:9780753827895
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:11/11/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780753827895
