De Quincey's Suspiria. I. The Daughter of Lebanon. II. Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Alethea Hayter
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0571306012
Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered. In this study Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of several other writers - notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs Browning, James Thomson and others - who are known to have taken opium at times. The work of these writers is discussed in the context of nineteenth-century opinion about the uses and dangers of opium, and of Romantic ideas on the creative imagination, on dreams and hypnagogic visions, and on imagery, so that the idiosyncrasies of opium-influenced writing can be isolated from their general literary background. The examination reveals a strange and miserable region of the mind in which some of the greatest poetic imaginations of the nineteenth century were imprisoned.
Author : Sampson Low
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Page : 1630 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1911
Category : English imprints
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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 348 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Grevel Lindop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 100074339X
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the final part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.
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Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : F. R. Tallis
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2012-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1611455057
Hidden Minds traces our enduring fascination with the unconscious and our attempts to tame it through hypnosis, psychoanalysis, subliminal manipulation, lucid dreams, and even the principles of the quantum...
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Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Bibliography
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.