# The English Opium-Eater

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- Book: [The English Opium-Eater](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-morrison/the-english-opium-eater) ([The English Opium-Eater.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-morrison/the-english-opium-eater.md))
- Authors: [Robert Morrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-morrison)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-9785-860-7
- Published: 2009-12-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer. Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle - have long placed him at the centre of 19th-century literary studies. De Quincey also stands at the meeting point in the culture wars between Edinburgh and London; between high art and popular taste; and between the devotees of the Romantic imagination and those of hack journalism. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Burroughs and Peter Ackroyd. De Quincey is a fascinating (and topical) figure for other reasons too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison's biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected essayist, critic and biographer.