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Thomas De Quincey / edited by Robert Morrison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859, author.
- Series:
- 21st-century Oxford authors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.
- De Quincey, Thomas.
- Authors, English--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xl, 617 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). The edition presents De Quincey's work in all of its rich variety, and offers the most thorough and accurate annotation of De Quincey's major works ever compiled"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- [Part I]
- Preliminary Confessions
- Part II
- The Pleasures of Opium
- Introduction to the Pains of Opium
- The Pains of Opium
- Manuscript and Other Material related to Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- Manuscript Material
- Notice to the Reader
- To the Editor of the London Magazine
- Appendix
- From Letters to a Young Man Whose Education has been Neglected
- [The Literature of Knowledge and The Literature of Power]
- On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
- On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
- To the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine
- Lecture
- From Elements of Rhetoric
- Front Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge [No. I]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge [No. II]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge [No. III]
- From Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830
- William Wordsworth No. I
- William Wordsworth [No. II]
- William Wordsworth No. III
- Second Paper On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
- From Style
- Style [No. I]
- Style No. II
- Style No. IV
- Suspiria de Profundis
- Introductory Notice
- Part I
- The Affliction of Childhood
- pt. I [Continued]
- pt. I Concluded
- The Palimpsest
- Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
- The Apparition of the Brocken
- Finale to Part I
- -Savannah-la-Mar
- Manuscript Material related to Suspiria de Profundis
- From The Works of Alexander Pope
- The English Mail-Coach
- The Glory of Motion
- Going Down with Victory
- The Vision of Sudden Death
- Dream-Fugue on the above theme of sudden death
- Manuscript Material related to The English Mail-Coach
- From Preface to Selections Grave and Gay
- Explanatory Notice to The English Mail-Coach
- Postscript to On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
- From Letter to Emily De Quincey
- From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856
- Original Preface in the Year 1821
- Prefatory Notice
- [What was it that did in reality make me an opium-eater?]
- [The Whispering Gallery]
- [My great central sun of opium]
- The Daughter of Lebanon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199676897
- 0199676895
- OCLC:
- 1048936100
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