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  The English Opium-eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (Paperback) By (author) Robert Morrison

  

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  Short Description for The English Opium-eaterDefinitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.
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  • Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Published: 11 November 2010
  • Format: Paperback 488 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Literary
  • ISBN 13: 9780753827895 ISBN 10: 0753827891
  • Sales rank: 1,140,165

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• 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.