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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Example Sentences

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

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

It was the day after Croucher's introduction to De Quincey and the first bad night spent by anybody in the Chamber of Peace.

From The Crime Doctor by Hornung, Ernest William