Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)

The Homepage of Thomas De Quincey is devoted to the study of the life and writings of the nineteenth-century English essayist and opium addict Thomas De Quincey. In addition to a biography, a chronology, and a series of links to other revelant material, the site contains an extensive bibliography that lists more than 200 titles by and about De Quincey.

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“Author of the famous and semi-scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey has long lacked a fully fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods have long placed him at the centre of nineteenth-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.”

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