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Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey (English Edition)

Catégorie: Histoire, Fantasy et Terreur
Auteur: Shantanand Saraswati, Mystery
Éditeur: Nicholas Tims, Betty Edwards
Publié: 2017-12-19
Écrivain: Sutherland Tui
Langue: Catalan, Vietnamien, Espagnol
Format: epub, pdf

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Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey - Historical Novel Society - Thomas De Quincey is most famous for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and for his friendship with the Romantic poets, especially William Wordsworth. In some ways this is a biography of Romanticism: Wilson masterfully paints a wide canvas of the milieu of the Lake

Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey | The Guardian - Thomas de Quincey: 'His genius was to take something sordidly familiar and make it arresting and strange.' Photograph: Alamy. There are plenty of stylistic fireworks worthy of De Quincey here. Comets whiz through the pages, as do snippets of poetry, narrative diversions and gruesome

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Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson · OverDrive: ebooks, audiobooks, - Thomas De Quincey was an obsessive. He was obsessed with Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose Lyrical Ballads provided the script to his life, and by the idea of There have been other biographies of Thomas De Quincey, but Guilty Thing is the first to be animated by the spirit of De Quincey himself

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'Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey' By Frances Wilson - Such a one is Thomas De Quincey, whose phantasmagoric memoir Confessions of an English Opium Eater has been handed from poets to trippers in an unbroken skein since the it was first published in 1822. De Quincey wrote many hundreds of thousands of words in addition toConfessions—

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Guilty Thing | 4Columns | 4Columns arts criticism weekly - Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey, by Frances Wilson, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 397 pages, $30. De Quincey wrote for around forty years, but his fame rested almost solely on his 1821 autobiography of sorts, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

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Thomas De Quincey - Wikipedia - Thomas Penson De Quincey (/də ˈkwɪnsi/; 15 August 1785 - 8 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)

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