{"product_id":"the-english-opiumeater-isbn-9780753827895","title":"The English Opium-Eater","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDefinitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle - have long placed him at the centre of 19th-century literary studies. De Quincey also stands at the meeting point in the culture wars between Edinburgh and London; between high art and popular taste; and between the devotees of the Romantic imagination and those of hack journalism. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Burroughs and Peter Ackroyd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDe Quincey is a fascinating (and topical) figure for other reasons too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison's biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected essayist, critic and biographer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44892328689893,"sku":"NP9780753827895","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_5905d7ae-fc1a-47b6-b0d6-21fe51a52656.jpg?v=1773106048","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-english-opiumeater-isbn-9780753827895","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}