Masters of Literature, De Quincey (Classic Reprint)

Masters of Literature, De Quincey (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas de Quincey

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780483697614

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Excerpt from Masters of Literature, De Quincey De Quincey's active life synchronized with the period when the English and Scottish literary periodicals were at the apogee of their influence and success. They sup plied the public with a great deal both of its serious, and its lighter, reading; they were powerful, wealthy, and important, and their circulation was, for their time, large; they were conducted by enterprising publishers or keen men of business who, in their ardent rivalry with one another, were eager to draw the ablest pens of Britain into their service. A monthly or quarterly press which had among its contributors such writers as Coleridge, Keats, Landor, Sir William Hamilton, Christopher North, Lockhart, Hood, Lamb, Hazlitt, Jeffrey, John Stuart Mill, Carlyle, and Macaulay, had some reason to think well of itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


De Quincey's Collected Writings, Vol. 10

De Quincey's Collected Writings, Vol. 10

Author: De Quincey

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-18

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780364878859

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Excerpt from De Quincey's Collected Writings, Vol. 10: Literary Theory and Criticism While passages of literary theory and criticism are to be found plentifully enough in the preceding volumes, inter spersed through their various kinds of matter, it is in the present volume and the next that the reader will find col lected those particular Essays of De Quincey in which he either expounds more formally his views of the principles of literature in its different varieties, or applies these more expressly to individual cases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


De Quincey (Classic Reprint)

De Quincey (Classic Reprint)

Author: Henry Stephens Salt

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9780266444862

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Excerpt from De Quincey The Farm, and then at Greenbay, a country house built by his father, and at that time still outside the spreading Circle of the city.' Here, in one or the other Of these quiet retreats, he felt the earliest impressions of the glory Of life and the pathos of life's withdrawal - that ever lasting contrast which has been so marvellously depicted by him.2 Living in the country, he says, I was naturally first laid hold Of by rural appearances or incidents. The very earliest feel ings that I recall Of a powerful character were connected with some Clusters of crocuses in the garden. Next I felt a passion of grief in a pro found degree for the death Of a beautiful bird, a kingfisher, which had been taken up in the garden with a broken wing. That occurred before I was two years of age. Next I felt, no grief at all, but awe the most enduring, and a dawning sense of the infinite, which brooded over me more or less after that time. Let the student Of De Quincey mark well that dawning sense Of the infinite, for therein lies the Clue to a full understanding of his genius and writings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey (Classic Reprint)

The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey (Classic Reprint)

Author: David Masson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9780428826253

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Excerpt from The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey The present volume continues and concludes the series of De Quincey's papers brought together in this edition of his writings as distinctively his essays in Literary Theory and Criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Selections from de Quincey

Selections from de Quincey

Author: Milton Haight Turk

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9780265220603

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Excerpt from Selections From De Quincey: Edited With an Introduction This volume contains - besides the Confessions, several of the Snspz'rz'a, and other popular pieces the most impor tant parts of De Quincey's Antooz'ogmp/zz'o Sketoizes and some of his most interesting Literary Romz'nz'soenoos. It is hoped that the selections will serve to illustrate pretty fully De Quincey's varied literary activity, while at the same time they throw light upon his life and character. A portion of the Introduction is devoted to the study of his personality. The text adopted is, except in the case of the Confessions, the latest to which De Quincey gave his approval. For the use of the original Confessions in place of the greatly enlarged version of 1856, there appears to be a better excuse than that of brevity. As will be pointed out in the Introduction, it is at least a question whether the earlier form had not the preference of the author himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Beauties

Beauties

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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780266215752

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Excerpt from Beauties: Selected From the Writings of Thomas De Quincey Great men seldom appear in the literary hemisphere isola ted, Like a star When only one is shining in the sky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint)

Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint)

Author: David Masson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780332366326

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Excerpt from Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 14 IT remains for the present volume to conclude the series of De Quincey's miscellanea and to add whatever else may be necessary for the completion of the edition. The paper entitled Education of Boys in Large Numbers dates from as far back as 1824, when it appeared in the London Magazine. One hardly knows why, among De Quincey's numerous contributions to that once famous periodical, this particular paper should have been so long overlooked. He seems to have attached some value to it himself; it attracted some notice at the time and it is of some intrinsic interest still, both as a history of a notable experiment in the art of school-management seventy years ago by a family of great subsequent celebrity on other grounds, and also as an exposition of not a few ideas of De Quincey's own on the subject of Education. The most pungent portion of it in this latter respect is the censure which it contains of the traditional methods of teaching Latin and Greek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Hours with Men and Books (Classic Reprint)

Hours with Men and Books (Classic Reprint)

Author: William Mathews

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780265191323

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Excerpt from Hours With Men and Books Among all the charmed names of modern English lit erature, is there probably any other English author whose works are read and re-read with such feelings of delight, wonder, and admiration as those of De Quincey? Glane ing over the books that are books on his shelves, each the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living spirit that bred them, does the scholar's eye rest on any with which it would cost him a keener pang to part, than with the writings of this great magister-sententiarum, this Aqui nas-richter, this aroh-dreamer of dreams, the Opium Eater? Read wherever the English language is spoken, he is by universal acknowledgment the most powerful and versatile master of that tongue in our ti1ne, - the acutest, and at the same time the most gorgeous and elo quent writer of English prose in the nineteenth century. Where, in the entire range of our later literature, will you find an intellect at once so solid and so subtle, so enormous learning conjoined with such power of original thinking, so daring, eccentric wit and grotesque fun with such sharpness and severity of style? Whatever the sub ject he discusses, whether the character-of the Caesars or the Aristocraoy of England, Homer and the Homeridae, or Niohols's System of the Heavens, - Lessmg's Laocoon, or the English corn-laws, - War, or Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts, Casuistry, or Dinner, Real and Reputed, - Miracles, or Secret Societies, Logic, Political Economy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.