![]() ![]() ![]() It professes to tear away the decent drapery. He describes, in vivid detail, the visions and dreams he experiences, conjuring up a world of contrasts that was both a ‘paradise’ and a place of ‘incubus and nightmare’.ĭe Quincey wrote his Confessions while unknown and in debt, but the work caused such a sensation that his literary fame was secured, and his account of his addiction has become a central Romantic text. Thomas De Quinceys Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was first published in 1821 in the London Magazine. De Quincey began to take the drug as a student at Oxford, to relieve a severe bout of toothache, and remained dependent on it for the rest of his life. It is the sections that describe his opium addiction, however, that have become the most famous. ![]() It professes to tear away the ‘decent drapery’ of convention and present the reader with ‘the record of a remarkable period’ in the author’s life, beginning when he ran away from school at the age of 17 and spent several months as a vagrant. Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was first published in 1821 in the London Magazine. On the other hand, in Confessions of an English Opium Eater, de Quincey discusses how opium has invigorated him and released him from the oppression of physical pain. I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me! ![]()
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