Poe, "How to Write a Blackwood Article", orig. [11] He became an acquaintance of Coleridge and Wordsworth, having already sought out Charles Lamb in London. indeed, be said to have existed in a dormant state," he recalled. Thou only givest these gifts to …autobiographical narrative by English author. subjects with which he was unfamiliar, De Quincey cheerfully ghostwrote [17] De Quincey then made literary acquaintances. His youth was spent in solitude, and when his elder brother, William, came home, he wrought havoc in the quiet surroundings. (1832) and short stories such as "The Household Wreck" Certainly, in his mature years, he was ingesting enough opium to kill a … One son, Julius, died at age four; another, William, suffered from a brain [28], A number of medical practitioners have speculated on the physical ailments that inspired and underlay De Quincey's resort to opium, and searched the corpus of his autobiographical works for evidence. Things went from bad to worse. opium!" literature and in the Greek, Latin, and German languages. By the 1820s he was constantly in financial difficulties. [27], His financial situation improved only later in his life. writing-table. occasionally wondered whether she might have been a product of De disorder and died at 18; and De Quincey lost his wife to typhus in 1837. life. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. But by this time he had lost most of the accounts he had kept of his early opium visions, so he expanded the rather short original version of the Confessions in other ways, adding much autobiographical material on his childhood and his experiences as a youth in London. personal reflections. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. In: This page was last edited on 16 September 2020, at 06:28. [4], Thomas Penson De Quincey was born at 86 Cross Street, Manchester, Lancashire. De Quincey was equally eloquent in describing the depressive states that He added some descriptions of opium-inspired dreams that had appeared about 1845 in Blackwood’s Magazine under the title Suspiria de Profundis (“Sighs from the Depths”). The [24] He pursued journalism as the one way available to him to pay his bills; and without financial need it is an open question how much writing he would ever have done. He was apparently befriended by a [citation needed] The play The Opium Eater by Andrew Dallmeyer was also based on Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,[16] and has been published by Capercaillie Books. De Quincey, on the evidence of his own narrative, appears to have had the constitution of a thoroughbred. [10], Discovered by chance by his friends, De Quincey was brought home and finally allowed to go to Worcester College, Oxford, on a reduced income. of all De Quincey's writings. E.A. Quincey's recollections has ever surfaced. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Finally broke, he went to London to try to borrow money on

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