De Quincey

[ di kwin-see ]

noun

1. Thomas, 1785–1859, English essayist.

De Quincey

/ də ˈkwɪnsɪ /

noun

1. De QuinceyThomas17851859MEnglishWRITING: criticWRITING: essayist Thomas. 1785–1859, English critic and essayist, noted particularly for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)

Example Sentences

In the 19th century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey wrote freely about their use of opium, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning referred to a mixture of morphine and ether as “my elixir.”

From New York Times

He might have crossed paths with Thomas De Quincey, who floated over the city on opium fumes.

From New York Times

Best of all, he loves writers who craft sentences crooked with clauses, like Thomas Browne and Thomas De Quincey.

From New York Times

His friend Charles Lamb called him “a cracked archangel”, while his fellow drug addict Thomas De Quincey would defend his poetic experimentalism.

From The Guardian

Karl Marx lived in Soho, as did Thomas De Quincey, author of “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”.

From Reuters