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	Thomas de Quincey: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thomas de Quincey (August 15, 1785 – December 8, 1859) was an English (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) author and intellectual.
		In 1800, De Quincey, aged fifteen, was ready for the University of Oxford (additional info and facts about University of Oxford) ; his scholarship was far in advance of his years.
		De Quincey throughout his life drank laudanum (Narcotic consisting of a tincture of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient) --after 1821, twice in great excess.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thomas_de_quincey.htm (853 words)

	Biographies: The Classical Fiction Writers: Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859).
		De Quincey became immensely attached to the Wordsworth children, especially the luckless little Catherine, and when she died, he was heartbroken.
		De Quincey, in his remembrances, was to describe Grasmere as consisting of "about sixty-three households in the vale; and the total number of souls was about 265 to 270." De Quincey was to see Coleridge daily.
		De Quincey is 'a sad example of the wretchedness that attends the life of a man of superior intellect whose conduct is the sport of ill-regulated passions.'"11
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	Thomas de Quincey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas de Quincey from the frontispiece of Revolt of the Tartars,
		Thomas de Quincey (August 15, 1785 – December 8, 1859) was an English author and intellectual.
		In 1796 De Quincey's mother, now a widow, moved to Bath and enrolled him at King Edward's School, Bath.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_de_Quincey (840 words)

	Encyclopedia: Thomas de Quincey
		De Quincey was addicted to opium from his youth for the rest of his life.
		Thomas De Quincey was born in the industrial city of Manchester, Lancashire.
		De Quincey was educated at schools in Bath and Winkfield.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-de-Quincey (290 words)

	Thomas de Quincey: A biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		de Quincey was educated in schools at Salford, Bath and Winkfield; at the age of 15 he began to attended Manchester Grammar School from which he ran away eighteen months later.
		Reconciled with his family, de Quincey was persuaded to go to university and in 1803 was registered as a student at Worcester College, Oxford.
		de Quincey spent a great deal of time in London; in 1807 he met Coleridge there and in November de Quincey visited Coleridge in the Lake District, where also he met the Wordsworths at their home, Dove Cottage, in Grasmere.
	www.victorianweb.org /previctorian/dequincey/bio.html (379 words)

	Thomas De Quincey
		Thomas was from infancy a shy, sensitive child, with a constitutional tendency to dreaming by night and by day; and, under the influence of an elder brother, a lad "whose genius for mischief amounted to inspiration", who died in his sixteenth year, he spent much of his boyhood in imaginary worlds of their own creating.
		De Quincey's mother had settled at Weston Lea, near Bath, and on one of his visits to Bath, De Quincey made the acquaintance of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; he took Mrs.
		However profuse and discursive, De Quincey is always polished, and generally exact -- a scholar, a wit, a man of the world and a philosopher, as well as a genius.
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	Thomas de Quincey
		Although better known as a literary figure, Thomas de Quincey was also a staunch and very eloquent supporter of the Ricardian Classical School.
		In 1823-4, de Quincey reviewed David Ricardo's work and entered into the debates then raging in economics on the theory of value and the Malthusian population doctrine.
		De Quincey moved to Edinburgh in 1830, but the creditors and the furies were fast at his heels.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/quincey.htm (1133 words)

	Thomas de Quincey Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
		Thomas de Quincey was born in Manchester in 1785.
		De Quincey went to schools in Bath and Winkfield before settling at Manchester Grammar School at 15.
		De Quincey extended upon his original Confessions for a much expanded version, printed in 1856, in which much of the autobiographical material was bolstered by new material.
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	AllRefer.com - Thomas De Quincey (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Thomas De Quincey, English Literature, 19th Century, Biographies
		Thomas De Quincey[du kwin´sE] Pronunciation Key, 1785–1859, English essayist.
		Among his best works : all written in a polished, highly imaginative, and discursive prose : are "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," "Suspiria de Profundis," "On the English Mail-Coach," "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth," and Autobiographic Sketches (1853).
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		Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater presented itself as a medical case history rather than an all-encompassing autobiography; it was to be the 'instructive record” of a “remarkable period” of his life.
		Written at a time when De Quincey was hiding out in taverns and coffee-houses to avoid his creditors, it is, for all the magnificence of its rhetoric, a surprisingly slight piece, much larger in the mind than it is on the page.
		De Quincey himself was unsure whether it constituted an improvement.
	www.thesohosociety.org.uk /feed/200501070056112 (995 words)

	Romanticism On the Net 13 (February 1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		De Quincey Reviewed is divided into twelve chapters, eleven of which necessarily concern his autobiographical writings, which have always been the centre of critical interest; a final chapter concerns De Quincey himself as critic and scholar.
		In this century De Quincey as prose stylist has been praised by Virginia Woolf and disparaged by George Saintsbury; praised as critic by John Jordan and condemned by René Wellek; praised as existentialist autobiographer by Miller and condemned as a narrow-minded Tory by McDonagh.
		The purple-patched appreciations of De Quincey in the 1850s are repeated by 'critics of consciousness' in the 1960s like Robert Adams, who observes that De Quincey, in his struggle against the void, 'unleashes a flood of hidden waters...the toppling, jerrybuilt structure of his thought collapses, there is a gush of redemptive emotions from beneath' (81).
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	Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The text was heavily influenced by Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
		One early appreciation of the Art of Murder came from Thomas de Quincey in his essay "On Murder as One of the Fine Arts" (1827).
		De Quincey does not object to the apprehension, prosecution, and punishment of murderers, but argues that once the demands of morality have been met, the connoisseur may pause to consider degrees of brutality or finesse in the commission of the crime, just as with any other instance of individual expression.
	www.jahsonic.com /Quincey.html (439 words)

	Thomas De Quincey -- Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Groves, David, “De Quincey’s ‘Daughter of Lebannon’ and the Execution of Mary McKinnon” in The Wordsworth Circle, 19.2 (1988), pp.
		Lent, John, “Thomas De Quincey, Subjectivity, and Modern Literature: A Consideration of the Release of Vision in Confessions of an English Opium Eater and ‘Suspiria de Profundis’” in Sphinx, 9 (1979), pp.
		Owen, W.J.B., “De Quincey and Shoplifting” in The Wordsworth Circle, 21.2 (1990), pp.
	www.queensu.ca /english/tdq/bibliography.htm (2201 words)

	Thomas De Quincey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is remarkable for its exploration of the psychological effects of opium, to which De Quincey was addicted.
		Or, as De Quincey himself put it: 'men of extraordinary genius and force of mind are far better as objects for distant admiration than as daily companions'.
		The early favourable impression De Quincey had made on the family also began to fade.
	www.wordsworth.org.uk /?Page=118 (284 words)

	Thomas De Quincey -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		As a child De Quincey was alienated from his solid, prosperous mercantile family by his sensitivity and precocity.
		Scottish poet, a member of the brilliant circle of writers that included Thomas De Quincey, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, John Keats, and Thomas Hood, who were contributors to the London Magazine in its heyday in the early 1820s.
		The 19th-century British poet and humorist Thomas Hood wrote humanitarian verses that served as models for a whole school of social-protest poets.
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	A biography of Thomas De Quincey by H. S. Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the first part of his life De Quincey, although an intimate friend of the greatest writers of his time, himself wrote nothing.
		Sykes Davies suggests in this sympathetic and discerning essay, the bulk of De Quincey's work has no more than an historical interest, but a few pieces of his literary criticism and of his biographical writings are of permanent value, together with his major achievement—the autobiographical writings.
		Sykes Davies draws attention to De Quincey's original observations on the nature and qualities of prose, and demonstrates how De Quincey's sense of the analogies of prose with music informs the most eloquent passages of the Confessions and of the Suspiria de Profunlis.
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	Amazon.com: Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Dover Thrift Editions): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, given the tenor of the tangent upon which De Quincey expounds, it is certain that at least he was using, and given Coleridge's history, he probably was a well.
		De Quincey is so absorbed in his solipsistic self-examination, that we as readers aren't even allowed to come up for air, much less see anything around us.
		Thomas De Quincey wrote this account of his life and his struggle with drug addiction to both educate on the evils of opium and also to share the dream trances that he experienced while in the throes of addiction.
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	Thomas De Quincey
		For the remainder of his life, De Quincey continued writing a fast and furious number of articles on all sorts of topics - literary criticism, theology, philosophy, politics, etc. - for contemporary magaizines, like Blackwood's, London Magazine, Tait's and Hogg's.
		In 1823-1824, de Quincey reviewed David Ricardo's work and entered into the debates then raging in economics on the theory of value and the Malthusian population doctrine.
		De Quincey started taking opium intensely again, got into more debt and went into hiding in Glasgow.
	www.economyprofessor.com /theorists/thomasdequincey.php (1171 words)

	Works of Thomas De Quincey published by Pickering & Chatto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Titled The Collected Works of Thomas De Quincey, and with an introduction by the editor implying the completeness of the project, there are in fact many serious omissions.
		Modern scholarship on De Quincey has progressed so far in recent times as to make the acquisition of an up-to-date set of his works a necessity for any institution where serious study of De Quincey, Romantic and Victorian literature take place.
		Thomas De Quincey (1785—1859) is one of the greatest English prose writers of the nineteenth century.
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	De Quincey, Thomas
		Thomas De Quincey was an English man of letters most closely associated with the Romantic poets Coleridge and Wordsworth.
		De Quincey delivers some more inspired writing in his description of the happiest days of his life, which consisted of many winter hours spent sitting by the fire, reading, blissed-out on opium.
		When it comes time for De Quincey to detail "The Pains of Opium," he side-steps the issue for the most part, and instead goes into long, detailed descriptions of his dreams and how extended opium use altered their character.
	www.nt.armstrong.edu /opium.htm (1993 words)

	Thomas De Quincey
		Piranesi's prison: Thomas De Quincey and the failure of autobiography.
		Narcissism and sinophobia: the case of Thomas De Quincey.
		War addiction in Thomas De Quincey's The English Mail-Coach.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0815208.html (335 words)

	Thomas De Quincey, James Hogg, and some other Romantic Essayists
		John Barrell, The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism (Yale, 1991).
		Nigel Leask, 'Toward a Universal Aesthetic: De Quincey on Murder as Carnival and Tragedy', ed.
		Thomas McFarland, Romantic Cruxes: The English Essayists and the Spirit of the Age (Clarendon, 1987).
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	BookkooB: Confessions of an English Opium-eater - Thomas De Quincey
		De Quincey, in his confessions, tells us how he became addicted to opium after suffering stomach pains.
		Unfortunately, De Quincey's style is such that it is difficult to become involved in his memoirs.
		Also, the narrative is frequently interrupted by De Quincey's authorial comments so this slim volume becomes even sparser on the topic of the actual effects of opium.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0140622578.htm (426 words)

	Thomas De Quincey: Biography of Thomas De Quincey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His father, Thomas Quincey (not de Quincey), was a merchant, and left his family well provided for.
		De Quincey was first educated at Salford and at Bath, and afterwards at Winkfield and the Manchester grammar school, from which he ran away.
		He subsequently went through the adventures and privations which he described in the "Confessions of an English Opium Eater." In 1803, he went up to Worcester College, Oxford, which he left without a degree.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/D/ThomasDeQuincey.html (234 words)

	Thomas De Quincey Study Questions, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
		How does De Quincey define the term "philosopher," and why might it be important to him that he be considered a philosophical writer?
		What contrasts in social class does De Quincey set up in the long preliminary section, and how does he situate himself with respect to others of lower standing than himself -- mainly the orphan girl and his friend Ann?
		How is De Quincey's meeting and subsequent loss of contact with the kind-hearted prostitute Ann characteristic of his narrative style -- his handling of events and of character?
	www.ajdrake.com /e212_spr_03/materials/authors/dequincey_sq.htm (518 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas De Quincey: Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
		Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was born at Manchester, England, the son of a merchant of literary tastes.
		He was a precocious student, but, revolting from the tyranny of his schoolmaster, he ran away, and wandered in Wales and in London, at times almost destitute.
		Most of De Quincey's writings were published in periodicals, and cover a great range of subjects.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/quincey-levana.html (1932 words)

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		Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater has long been celebrated as a classic of drug literature – but what if an upset tummy, and not opium use, was the real cause of the writer’s disturbing visions?
		This may sound bizarre, but such claims were made by a number of people prominent in their respective fields and widely respected in intellectual circles.
		The story really begins with Dr John Ferriar (1761-1815), a leading Manchester physician probably best known for his work in improving the living and working conditions of the poor and his writings on literature.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/180_dequincy1.shtml (685 words)

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