De Quincey

American  

[di kwin-see] / dɪ ˈkwɪn si /

noun

1. Thomas, 1785–1859, English essayist.

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De Quincey British  

/ də ˈkwɪnsɪ /

noun

1. Thomas. 1785–1859, English critic and essayist, noted particularly for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)

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De Quincey

Nine years ago, the Canadian historian Robert Morrison published a scholarly and engrossing life of England’s second most famous opium eater, Thomas De Quincey.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2019

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

“His sister Jane lived three years,” she writes of De Quincey.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2017

White Gill, in Langdale, Westmorland, nearly at the back of the inn at Millbeck, derives its chief interest from the loss of the two Greens there, so graphically described by De Quincey.

From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. Haskett Smith

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