Thomas De Quincey
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A legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). After achieving overnight success with Confessions of an English Opium Eater, an impassioned account of his struggles with addiction, the author wrote the hypnotic prose poems of Suspiria de Profundis ("Sighs from the Depths"). Like Confessions, these short essays combined drug-induced visions...
2) The Caesars
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The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated, nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude, and not many-if we except the cities of Greece, none at all-in the grandeur of architectural...
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In this haunting autobiography, De Quincey describes the pleasures and pains of his addiction to opium, the surreal visions and hallucinations that accompanied his nocturnal wanderings through London, and the despair, nightmares, and paranoia he suffered. First published in 1821, this remarkable volume paved the way for later generations of literary drug users. Also includes "Suspiria de Profundis," "The English Mail-Coach," and his "Literary Reminiscences"...
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This edition includes "The Affliction of Childhood," a reflection on the death of the author's two sisters in childhood, "Levana and our Ladies of Sorrow," one of his best-known works about the Roman goddess of childbirth, and "The English Mail-Coach," on the "grandeur and power" of the English mail-coach system.
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This book comprises a collection of essays written by Thomas De Quincey. Within them, he furnished some of the earliest, most authentic, and most enlightening accounts of the Lake Poets-a group of poets that included Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets" is a fascinating read and is highly recommended for those with an interest in the Romantic Movement.
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"En algún lugar, no sé dónde, de alguna manera, no sé cómo, unos seres, no sé cuáles, libraban una batalla, un combate, una agonía que se desarrollaba como un gran drama o una composición musical, mi inquietud era tanto más difícil de soportar, puesto que ignoraba el sitio, la causa, la naturaleza, el posible resultado de la lucha. Como suele ocurrir en los sueños en los que por necesidad nos volvemos el centro de todo movimiento, yo tenía...
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Este volumen recoge algunos de los textos que mejor definen a Thomas de Quincey y mejor plasman su compromiso con la inteligencia, la verdad, el humor y la polémica.
Con Judas Iscariote, ensayo tremendamente célebre en su época, levantó ampollas al cuestionar la maldad del apóstol. Para De Quincey, Judas había sido elegido por Jesús, y si lo había traicionado era, en palabras de Borges, "para obligarlo a declarar su divinidad y a encender...
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An engrossing collection of autobiographical vignettes by Thomas De Quincey, whose 1821 account of his opium addiction garnered him enormous fame. His sickly childhood, education, wanderings around Britain, lifelong struggle with debt, and subsequent writing career are all recollected in De Quincey's elegant prose.
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Los dos ensayos—"Conversación" y "Estilo"—que forman este Escritos literarios de un opiómano inglés son una deliciosa muestra, al más puro estilo quinceyniano, de una de las facetas menos frecuentadas del autor de Del asesinato considerado como una de las bellas artes, excelente y atinado ensayista.
Si "Conversación" es—en palabras del escritor Andrés Barba, que ha seleccionado, traducido y prologado estos escritos—una pequeña máquina...
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'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The 'Confessions' was the first major work De Quincey published and the one, which won him fame almost overnight.
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Thomas De Quincey, an English essayist during the turn of the nineteenth century, began life as a fairly sickly child, and would spend much of his life in the grips of one illness or another. Through a series of misguided attempts at getting an education, De Quincey dropped out of college and instead became a vagrant. The youth barely had enough food to eat and resorted to begging in order to survive. These years served as a depressing foundation...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight... "
First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, the Confessions was released in book form in 1822, and again in 1856, in an...
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A beautiful pocket-sized collection featuring Wordsworth's Lucy Poems complete with an introductory excerpts from Thomas De Quincey and Thomas Carlyle.
"The Lucy Poems" are a series of five poems written by Wordsworth from 1798 to 1801, most of which were first published in his famous "Lyrical Ballads". Imbued with abstract ideals of nature, beauty, love, longing and death, the poems were written during a short period when Wordsworth lived in Germany...