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

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

De Quincey had wonderful ideas he could never remember, often scribbled down on pieces of paper he could never find.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2018

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

Mather suggests Milton, Irving suggests Addison, Emerson suggests Carlyle, Poe, shall we say, is often the too conscious workman typified by De Quincey.

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