Author:Thomas De Quincey

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Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)

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English essayist and intellectual

Thomas De Quincey

Contents

Works

Essays

• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
• On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, 1823
• On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts, 1827
• Revolt of the Tartars, 1837
• Second Paper on Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts, 1839
• Dinner Real and Reputed, 1839
• Theory of Greek Tragedy, 1840
• Suspiria de Profundis, 1845
  • Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
  • Savannah-la-Mar
• Joan of Arc, 1847
• The English Mail-Coach, 1849
  • The Glory of Motion
  • The Vision of Sudden Death
  • Dream Fugue
  • Postscript
• Autobiographic Sketches, 1853

Novels and short stories

• Klosterheim, or The Masque, 1832 (novel)
• The Avenger, 1838 (tale)

Works about De Quincey

• "De Quincey, Thomas," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "De Quincey, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "De Quincey, Thomas," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "De Quincey, Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "De Quincey, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "De Quincey, Thomas," by William T. Brewster in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

On his works

• "Confessions of an English Opium Eater," by Caleb T. Winchester in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "De Quincey's Autobiographic Sketches," by Waldo H. Dunn in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)