Thomas de quincey confessions of an english opium eater

  • Thomas De Quincey's powerful autobiographical study describes his addiction to opium and its psychological effects.
  • De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction.
  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life.
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  • Confessions of an English Opium Eater

    Thomas De Quincey

    Thomas De Quincey's powerful autobiographical study describes his addiction to opium and its psychological effects: childhood experience is turned into dreams that are at first euphoric, but become horrific as his dependence on the drug deepens. Published in , the book brought De Quincey literary fame and became an important influence on later writers.

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    Confessions of an English Opium Eater

    Jonathan Derbyshire – Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater ()

    I’d give the prize to De Quincey’s Confessions. It’s not a novel, of course, though its veracity as first-person reportage was questioned from the beginning. In any case, De Quincey’s primary aim was not so much to demonstrate the “specific power” of opium as to reflect on the “mechanism of the imagination” itself. To that end, he follows his “own humours” rather than any “regular narrative”, and in doing so opens vistas previously unglimpsed in English prose. As Virginia Woolf observed in her essay on De Quincey, sometimes we encounter writing from which “we all draw our pleasure from the words themselves,” without having to make a “voyage of discovery into the psychology of the writer.” The Confessions, whatever its author’s shortcomings as an autobiographer, offers such pleasures in abundance.

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