Thomas de Quincey

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autobiographer essayist human journalist literary critic

Thomas de Quincey was a 19th-century English essayist and literary critic best known for his autobiographical work "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater."

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Thomas De Quincey	5
Thomas de Quincey canonical	2

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	autobiographer ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ
associatedWith	Lake Poets ⓘ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ⓘ William Wordsworth ⓘ
birthDate	1785-08-15 ⓘ
birthPlace	England ⓘ Lancashire ⓘ Manchester ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
deathDate	1859-12-08 ⓘ
deathPlace	Edinburgh ⓘ Scotland ⓘ
describedAs	English essayist ⓘ English opium-eater ⓘ
educatedAt	Manchester Grammar School ⓘ Worcester College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyName	de Quincey ⓘ
genre	autobiography ⓘ essay ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ
givenName	Thomas ⓘ
influenced	Charles Baudelaire ⓘ Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ Jorge Luis Borges ⓘ Thomas Carlyle ⓘ
knownFor	early exploration of drug addiction in literature ⓘ ornate prose style ⓘ
languageOfExpression	English ⓘ
movement	Romanticism ⓘ
name	Thomas de Quincey self-link ⓘ
notableWork	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ⓘ On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts ⓘ Suspiria de Profundis ⓘ The English Mail-Coach ⓘ
occupation	editor ⓘ essayist ⓘ journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ
period	19th century ⓘ
residence	Grasmere ⓘ Lake District ⓘ
subjectOf	studies in addiction literature ⓘ