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

He might have crossed paths with Thomas De Quincey, who floated over the city on opium fumes.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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

Unsentimental and precise, he reckons with a past simultaneously vanished and all too present, drawing inventively on Proust, Nabokov, De Quincey, and St. Augustine.

From The New Yorker

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