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The English Opium-eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey
Robert Morrison
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Description for The English Opium-eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey
Paperback. Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer. Num Pages: 488 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 38. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753827895
SKU
V9780753827895
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99-10
About Robert Morrison
Robert Morrison is recognised as a world-class scholar of Romantic and Victorian literature. He is the editor of the OUP edition of De Quincey's essays 'On Murder' and co-editor of a collection of new essays on De Quincey (Routledge).
Reviews for The English Opium-eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey
Robert Morrison's biography is astute and revealing, quarrying new sources.
John Carey
Sunday Times 22.11.09
I knew that I was on to a good thing with ths book before the page numbers were even out of roman numerals... This was a lively life, and this is a lively life...
Sam Leith
The Spectator 5.12.09
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John Carey
Sunday Times 22.11.09
I knew that I was on to a good thing with ths book before the page numbers were even out of roman numerals... This was a lively life, and this is a lively life...
Sam Leith
The Spectator 5.12.09
... Read more