A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.

As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium a

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The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiri

Examines the life of the drug-influenced nineteenth century author of "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater," who influenced Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens,