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A dynamic biography of one of the most mysterious members of wordsworth's circle and the last of the romantics thomas de quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture.
Wordsworth never considered de quincey anything more than a disappointing acolyte but coleridge saw that de quincey’s “façade of meekness disguised turbulence and ferocity. ” that ferocity emerged when, sick of life in the great man’s shadow, de quincey took an axe to the sacred grove of his idol and chopped down wordsworth’s beloved.
Dove cottage (town end, grasmere) – home of william and dorothy wordsworth, 1799–1808; home of thomas de quincey, 1809–1820 marriage and children in 1802, lowther's heir, william lowther, 1st earl of lonsdale, paid the 4,000 pounds owed to wordsworth's father through lowther's failure to pay his aide.
English writer thomas de quincey (1785–1859) wrote prolifically and in numerous fields, ranging from fiction to biography to economics, and often crossing genre boundaries in unclassifiable works that mixed exposition of others' ideas with autobiography and personal reflections.
De quincey acquired “new london debt in the very act of extinguishing the old westmorland debt,” for instance, and, as with drug use, this is a recurring cycle, despite his being repeatedly “put to the horn” and publically humiliated. One gets the sense from this biography, though, that de quincey was a hard man to humiliate.
This de quincey gives to illustrate wordsworth at his most bathetic, having contrasted his plodding marginalia with the brilliant effusions of coleridge. In the lead-in, de quincey had described how before he had ever met wordsworth he had met a man who in 1805 had travelled for two days and night in a stage coach with wordsworth and coleridge.
Imagine waking up and finding that in your inbox! the recipient of these unsolicited and spamlike effusions was the poet william wordsworth.
This spectacular biography, the produce of meticulous scholarship and beautifully supple prose, tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dazzling complexity and dazzling originality, whose rackety life was lived on the run, and both brings de quincey and his martyred but wild soul triumphantly to life and firmly establishes frances wilson.
By examining the family and financial circumstances of wordsworth's early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great romantic.
Publication date 1963 publisher university of california collection universallibrary contributor.
I was dredging it out of myself, bringing to the surface a submerged wreck. De quincey was a teenager when he became addicted to william wordsworth.
De quincey even avers that dorothy might, if she chose, have flourished as a “writer for the press,” and that she would deserve a “separate notice in any biographical dictionary of our times, had there even been no william wordsworth in existence” (107, 108).
With the letters of thomas de quincey to the wordsworth family by de quincey, thomas, 1785-1859.
De quincey idolized wordsworth, having discovered the poem “we are seven” as a teenager.
The letters of william and dorothy wordsworth; the middle years, 1806-1820.
Described by the writer and opium addict thomas de quincey as the very wildest person i have ever known, dorothywordsworth was neither the self-effacing spinster nor the sacrificial saint of common telling. A brilliant stylist in her own right, dorothy was at the center of the romantic.
Robert morrison’s the english opium eater, the first major biography of thomas de quincey (1785–1859) in more than 25 years, draws on previously unknown letters from de quincey’s daughters and his 21-volume collected works published in 2000–03. Clearly, such material is a scholar’s paradise, and morrison, a queen’s national scholar.
A dynamic biography of one of the most mysterious members of wordsworth's circle and the last of the romantics. Thomas de quincey - opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger.
To wordsworth study guide contains a biography of percy bysshe shelley, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
A versatile essayist and accomplished critic, de quincey used his own life as the subject of his most acclaimed work, the confessions of an english.
Based on an intimate knowledge of the poet's manuscripts, on a fresh look at contemporary records, and a careful analysis of the vast amount of research that has appeared in the last two decades, this vividly written volume is the first serious biography of wordsworth to appear in over twenty-five years.
Stephen gill a professor of english literature at oxford university and a fellow of lincoln college, oxford.
With the letters of thomas de quincey to the wordsworth family. Published: (1963) de quincey as critic / by: de quincey, thomas, 1785-1859.
William wordsworth, english poet who was a central figure in the english romantic revolution in poetry.
De vriendschap tussen wordsworth en coleridge leidde tot een gezamenlijk glenn everett, william wordsworth: biography, the victorian web, 2007.
Born on 7th april, 1770, the second of five children, in the west cumbrian town of cockermouth.
A masterful biography of england's most notorious literary figure. Author of the scandalous confessions of an english opium-eater, thomas de quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the romantic and victorian periods— including william wordsworth and samuel taylor.
De quincey acquired “new london debt in the very act of extinguishing the old westmorland debt,” for instance, and, as with drug use, this is a recurring cycle, despite his being repeatedly “put to the horn” and publically humiliated. One gets the sense from this biography, though, that de quincey was a hard man to humiliate.
Wilson maps her account of de quincey’s life on to the structure of wordsworth’s prelude and then proceeds to pull apart that crowning glory of romantic autobiography according to the messy.
Born in manchester in 1785, a precocious student who never took his oxford degree, de quincey idolised wordsworth (left) and moved to the lakes.
It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as the poem to coleridge.
This new edition includes and introductory excerpt by thomas de quincey. William wordsworth (1770–1850) was an english romantic poet famous for helping to usher in the romantic age in english literature with the publication of “lyrical ballads” (1798), which he co-wrote with samuel taylor coleridge.
Even more mirror-like, de quincey became famous as a writer for producing essays about his own life, including his attempts to suck up to greatness—most notably the poet wordsworth.
Thomas de quincey was a slightly less celebrated figure from the romantics era who rose to fame for his writings in fields of economics, fiction, greek literature and philosophy, roman history, politics, mathematics and even biography. However, he remains acclaimed for a singular yet striking work – confessions of an english opium eater (1821).
Author of the famed and scandalous confessions of an english opium-eater, thomas de quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His 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 center of nineteenth century literar.
Grevel’s biography had lots of good information on de quincey’s height. This is robert southey to his brother on 12 november 1808: ‘little mr de quincey is at grasmere.
This chapter considers thomas de quincey's literary criticism, and particularly his criticisms of william wordsworth, in relation to samuel taylor coleridge's similar concerns. It shows that de quincey's criticisms of wordsworth were informed by a coleridgean critical agenda which de quincey carried beyond the age of reform into his later imperialist thinking.
The second of five children born to john wordsworth and ann cookson, william wordsworth was born on 7 april 1770 in what is now named wordsworth house in cockermouth, cumberland, part of the scenic region in northwestern england known as the lake district.
Robert was director when i went in the late 1970s to research my biography of thomas de quincey; and it was his idea that i should assemble a team to edit de quincey’s complete works – a project which came to fruition in a 21-volume edition from the london publisher pickering and chatto in 2000-2003.
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At blois, wordsworth's nascent radicalism was quickened by contact with members of the society 'les amis de la constitution' and above all by his friendship with.
One reason may be that wordsworth is attempting a biography of himself as a poet and showing how nature shaped his writing. De quincey’s themes are more concerned with hardship and opium addiction.
This essay investigates diverging transatlantic attitudes towards mechanisation in the mid-nineteenth century by looking at the portrayals of steam engines in anglo-american romantic literary works by wordsworth, emerson, de quincey and dickinson.
Evidence of a decisive turn in wordsworth's social and political views—and, by extension, his poetical views as well—.
A brief description of wordsworth as a very young man, overcome. Taken from thomas de quincey's recollections of the lake poets.
As de quincey wrote, 'she was content to be ignorant of many things, but what she knew and had really mastered lay where it could not be disturbed—in the temple of her own most fervid heart' (de quincey, 239). Dorothy wordsworth found fulfilment in ways which elude precise analysis.
De quincey is a disappointing critic of wordsworth, and his comments on particular poems are few and often thin. It has been calculated that over two hundred allusions to wordsworth are scattered through his collected works, but they are seldom expanded into comments on wordsworth’s poetic practice or into specific criticisms of his poetry.
I have an interest in the work of de quincey (especially the suspiria, and levana and our ladies of sorrow). Stumbling upon the connection between de quincey, down’s, wordsworth’s daughter (and sensitive writers of the romantic period in general) strikes a chord.
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