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

Best of all, he loves writers who craft sentences crooked with clauses, like Thomas Browne and Thomas De Quincey.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

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

Lodging at some place, De Quincey took affront at something said by a landlady, and abruptly left his quarters.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville

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