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Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle - have long placed him at the centre of 19th-century literary studies. De Quincey also stands at the meeting point in the culture wars between Edinburgh and London; between high art and popular taste; and between the devotees of the Romantic imagination and those of hack journalism. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Burroughs and Peter Ackroyd. De Quincey is a fascinating (and topical) figure for other reasons too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison's biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected essayist, critic and biographer.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: literary

• Full title: English Opium-Eater
• Subtitle: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey
• Author: Robert Morrison
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• EAN: 9780753827895
• ISBN: 0753827891
• ID: 04152504
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Weight: 522 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 136 × 38 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. November 2010

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