The New York Times: THOMAS DE QUINCEY; His Autobiographic Writings and Some Others Collected in a New Volume of the Caxton Series.*
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Thomas De Quincey
Thomas Penson De Quincey was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the Western world.
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culture · English essayist, translator and political economist (1785–1859) · linguist · journalist · writer · novelist · translator · autobiographer · prose writer · essayist · literary critic · philosopher · also Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Penson De Quincey, De Quincey, Quincey
Born 15 August 1785 · Died 8 December 1859 · Q317160
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2022· 1 entry
The Atlantic: Thomas De Quincey
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2017· 1 entry
The Australian Financial Review: Thomas De Quincey, 19th century author and an early version of a web troll
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2016· 4 entries
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
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scmp.com: Book review: Guilty Thing – the life and times of Thomas De Quincey
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The Australian: Thomas De Quincey: The man behind the myth
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The Financial Times: ‘Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey’, by Frances Wilson
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2010· 1 entry
The Globe and Mail: Review: The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey, by Robert Morrison
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2009· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph: The English Opium Eater: a Biography of Thomas de Quincey: review
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1859· 3 entries
Died 1859-12-08.
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“Original: «I feel assured there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting: traces once impressed upon memory are indestructible.”
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“Original: «The memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.”
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1843· 1 entry
But late in 1848 he went for 61 days with none at all
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1839· 1 entry
“A Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts”
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1827· 1 entry
And 1828, he accused anti-slavery campaigners of running "schemes of personal aggrandizement", and worried that abolition would undermine the basis of the British Empire and cause uprisings like the Haitian Revolution ag
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1821· 1 entry
Went to London to dispose of some translations from German authors, but was persuaded first to write and publish an account of his opium experiences, which that year appeared in the London Magazine
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1816· 1 entry
And soon after, having no money left, he took up literary work in earnest
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1813· 1 entry
That he first commenced daily usage, in response to illness and his grief over the death of Wordsworth's three-year-old daughter Catherine (06/09/1808 – 04/06/1812)
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1804· 3 entries
To relieve his neuralgia: his opium addiction may have begun as self-medication
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While at Oxford, he began the occasional use of opium
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To relieve his neuralgia; he used it for pleasure, but no more than weekly, through 1812
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1800· 1 entry
De Quincey, aged 15, was ready for the University of Oxford; his scholarship was far in advance of his years
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1785· 1 entry
Born 1785-08-15.
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