Author: De Quincey
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Coleridge and Opium-eating and Other Writings
Author: De Quincey
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Opium and the Romantic Imagination
Author: Alethea Hayter
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571254163
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered. In this study Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of several other writers - notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs Browning, James Thomson and others - who are known to have taken opium at times. The work of these writers is discussed in the context of nineteenth-century opinion about the uses and dangers of opium, and of Romantic ideas on the creative imagination, on dreams and hypnagogic visions, and on imagery, so that the idiosyncrasies of opium-influenced writing can be isolated from their general literary background. The examination reveals a strange and miserable region of the mind in which some of the greatest poetic imaginations of the nineteenth century were imprisoned.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571254163
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered. In this study Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of several other writers - notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs Browning, James Thomson and others - who are known to have taken opium at times. The work of these writers is discussed in the context of nineteenth-century opinion about the uses and dangers of opium, and of Romantic ideas on the creative imagination, on dreams and hypnagogic visions, and on imagery, so that the idiosyncrasies of opium-influenced writing can be isolated from their general literary background. The examination reveals a strange and miserable region of the mind in which some of the greatest poetic imaginations of the nineteenth century were imprisoned.
Coleridge and opium-eating
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Coleridge and opium-eating and other writings
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Author: Thomas de Quincey
Publisher: Gottfried & Fritz
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Publisher: Gottfried & Fritz
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers – Volume 2
Author: Томас Де Квинси
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043822228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043822228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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Speculations Literary and Philosophic, with
Author: Thomas de Quincey
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Works of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Thomas De Quincey
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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De Quincey's works
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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