Quincey, Thomas de

Thomas de Quincey, English essayist, 1785-1859

The English essayist Thomas Penson de Quincey is best known for his "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing the account of his opium experiences, de Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West. Between 1835 and 1849, Tait's Magazine published a series of de Quincey's reminiscences of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robert Southey, and other figures among the Lake Poets - a series that taken together constitutes one of his most important works.

  • Quincey, Thomas de, English essayist (1785-1859). Autograph letter signed.Edinburgh, 13 Oct. 1857.

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