Noun
English writer who described the psychological effects of addiction to opium (1785-1859)
Source: WordNetAgainst the wall, near the head of the bunk, was a rack filled with books. I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey. There were scientific works too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin. Jack London
De Quincey writes about the great English Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), whose " Kubla Khan " is also widely considered to be a poem of the opium experience. Source: Internet
A young Thomas De Quincey collapses on Oxford Street and is nursed to health far from his safe, rich normal life. Source: Internet
Thomas De Quincey wrote of him 'All the motion of Goldsmith's nature moved in the direction of the true, the natural, the sweet, the gentle'. Source: Internet
De Quincey Writings (ed) James Thomas Fields 1850–1855 His premature death in 1774 may have been partly due to his own misdiagnosis of his kidney infection. Source: Internet