Word: quincey
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ENGLISH 8.- Hour Exam. Notes on lives of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, De Quincey and Lamb, with comments on their style and works, are for sale at University Bookstore. Price, 75 cents...
...Quincey as a master of imaginative prose...
...writer of memoirs, magazine articles and an essayist, De Quincey was one of the princes of English literature. He was of an intellectual turn of mind and resolved to see the world with his own and not with other's eyes. To earn his daily bread, he was compelled to write what would bring him immediate returns. Thus his literary activity was determined by his financial condition and his first writings were fugitive magazine articles which won for him the greater part of his fame...
...Quincey was the fifth of a family of six children. His father was a Manchester merchant and died at the age of thirty-nine, leaving an estate valued at thirty thousand pounds. At the age of six, De Quincey was sorely grieved by the death of an elder sister, who had read to him the story of the Arabian Nights, which aroused in him such a great spirit of imagination. He stole into the death chamber of his sister and received those impressions, which make up his charming and vivid narrative published many years later...
...shattered condition of the household finances 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...