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

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

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

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2017

There De Quincey bowed and smiled, while interposing his mild but terrible and unanswerable "buts," and winding the subtle way of his talk through all subjects, human, infernal, and divine.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various