De Quincey
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
De Quincey has said that the book is equally divided between “empty truisms and time-serving Dutch falsehoods.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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