David Masson

De Quincey (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

English Men of Letters Series

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1881, this volume of the English Men of Letters series was written by a man who had been both friend and editor to Thomas De Quincey. As such, it is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the life of one of Victorian England's most unusual writers, the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411439054
• Artikelnr.: 50388981

Autorenporträt

David Masson (1822-1907) was a Scottish writer and early advocate of higher education for women. He was personally acquainted with such literary luminaries as De Quincey, Thomas Carlyle, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. He is best known for his six-volume biography of Milton, Life of Milton in Connexion with the History of His Own Time.

Inhaltsangabe

Prefatory note
1. Parentage, infancy, and childhood
2. Boyhood and changes of school, with a tour in Ireland
3. Vagrancy in North Wales and in London
4. Mainly at Oxford, with visits to London and the Lakes
5. Bachelor life at the Lakes
6. Married life at the Lakes: prostration under opium
provincial editorship
7. Partly in London, partly at the Lakes, partly in Edinburgh: the Confessions and other articles in the London Magazine, and first articles in 'Blackwood'
8. Wholly in Edinburgh: more contributions to Blackwood, with articles in Tait's Magazine
9. Lasswade and Edinburgh, with visits to Glasgow: more contributions to Blackwood and Tait
10. Lasswade, and No. 42 Lothian Street, Edinburgh: the Collected Works, last days of De Quincey
11. De Quincey's writings: general characteristics
12. De Quincey's writings: classification and review.