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Thomas De Quincey / edited by Robert Morrison.

Van Pelt Library PR4532 .M67 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859, author.
Contributor:
Morrison, Robert, 1961- editor.
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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