The NoteBook of an English Opium-Eater
The NoteBook of an English Opium-Eater

Author: Thomas de Quincey

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781018875361

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Suspiria de Profundis
Suspiria de Profundis

Author: Thomas De Quincey

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2023-05-13

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13:

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The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.

The Confessions of an English Opium Eater
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Author: Thomas De Quincey

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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This autobiography, first published in 1821, describes the author's addiction to laudanum (opium and alcohol) and its effect on his life. He talks about his childhood and the underlying psychological factors that led to his opium abuse. He had spent his late teenage years as a runaway living on the streets of London. He describes the early pleasures of opium and then how his experiences devolved into the more extreme side effects such as insomnia, hallucinations and physical symptoms.