De Quincey
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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For a class about loss, students read Elizabeth Alexander and Virginia Woolf; for one about “altered states,” Cheryl Strayed and Thomas De Quincey.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
It lies in the direct inheritance of the romantic confessional—the Jewish-American offspring of Rousseau and Chateaubriand and De Quincey and Hazlitt, where human truth is the reward of personal egotism.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2018
The Swiss Italian writer’s unconventional biographies of three writers — Thomas De Quincey, John Keats and Marcel Schwob — contain some of my favorite sentences of the year.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
“His sister Jane lived three years,” she writes of De Quincey.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
This is partly the reason, yet De Quincey and Edgar Allan Poe inspire no such aversion.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce
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