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  • De Quincey, “Milton versus Southey and Landor” in Note Book of an English Opium-Eater, ebook, Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/etext/6881.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • De Quincey, “Milton versus Southey and Landor” in Note Book of an English Opium-Eater, ebook, Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/etext/6881.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Opium-Eater (forthcoming Broadview, 2009); and co-editor of Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism (SUNY 2005) and Cultural Subjects:

    About This Volume 2008

  • Today it began at Worcester College, where Thomas De Quincey, author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, had been a student in the 1800s.

    Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007

  • Carlish expressed concern that Doherty thinks he's Thomas De Quincey, author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.

    The Beautiful and the Damned Ward, Vicky 2005

  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater/by Thomas de

    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

  • English Opium-Eater (London: J.M. Dent, 1907), 237. back

    Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis 1996

  • His most popular work is _The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater_, which interests the reader by its curious pictures of the abnormal conditions in which he lived and wrote.

    English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

  • Quincey contributed his _Confessions of an English Opium-Eater_ -- the most famous of all the articles that appeared in the magazine.

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • I am sure she must have seen those awful prisons of his, out of which the Opium-Eater got his nightmare vision, described by another as "cemeteries of departed greatness, where monstrous and forbidden things are crawling and twining their slimy convolutions among mouldering bones, broken sculpture, and mutilated inscriptions."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

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