Biographical Essays
Thomas De Quincey
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Biographical Essays, by Thomas De Quincey, gathers the magazine portraits of the author of the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. De Quincey's volume opens with Shakspeare. He calls the playwright modern poetry's presiding genius. The glory of the human intellect is his other title for him. The essay begins by worrying a small fact with great care. Shakespeare was baptized on the twenty fifth of April, 1564. Tradition makes his birthday the twenty third, the day he also died.
De Quincey builds lives from such grains. His essays treat writers as minds to be entered, not records to be summarized. Digression is the method and the pleasure. This collection belongs to the De Quincey writings series, alongside the Confessions and Suspiria de Profundis.
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| CREATOR | Thomas De Quincey |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 476 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |