Word: eater
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...caused De Quincey to awake from his opium habit in which he languished from 1817 to 1821. He was a constant contributer to the different English magazines and amid hopeless confusion, he carried on his literary work. The publication of his book on the Confessions of an English Opium Eater was a startling revelation to the literary people of the world. He lived by his pen for fifty years and when his magazine articles were collected they filled fifty volumes. All these articles are characterized by individuality, humor, imagination and the evident results of a thorough study of the classics...
...Kipling's "At the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," to which it bears much similarity in conception and to which, it is almost needless to say, it is infinitely inferior. And for several faulty English constructions in the opening paragraph, there is not the excuse of delineating an opium eater's vagaries of thought. In general, this kind of writing demands a power which very few college men possess, and too often lures men beyond their depth...
...caters to a wide variety of tastes, and its table of contents reveals several names new to magazine readers. To the average college man, perhaps the most interesting article is "The Wordsworths and De Quincey," a paper of literary biography containing unpublished letters of the poet and the opium-eater: one of Wordsworth's to the young De Quincey is particularly worthy of attention as containing excellent advice to youth, advice which he gives in simplicity and tender apprehension, as one lover of nature and virtue speaking to another, advice which is applicable quite as much...