The Prose Poetry of Thomas De Quincey
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Excerpt from The Prose Poetry of Thomas De Quincey: Inaugural-Dissertation, Presented to the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Leipzig, for the Acquisition of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy For mastery of style perhaps no English writer ever received more general praise than Thomas De Quincey. But, in spite of his fortune in this respect, and notwithstanding the fame of his versatility as a man of letters, he has met, strange to say, neither in his own country nor in America with much criticism of a more searching sort. In France, although De Musset himself early paraphrased The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Taine, it seems, never heard of De Quincey, - as it happens, a real sign of widespread negligence in the world of criticism. Germany possesses portions of our author´s writings in translation, but to any problems of his life and activity, this land, so notable otherwise for its thoroughgoing interest in English letters, has failed to give practical attention; a thing all the more remarkable when one considers the part that De Quincey played, with Coleridge, Carlyle and others, in popularising German literature for England in the early part of the nineteenth century. His participation in this movement involves but one of many questions about our author that invite investigation. What, for instance, was his exact relation to the Lake School? How is he to be classed among the novelists? How did he bear himself toward Rousseau and the principles of the French Revolution? - Or, for a more particular example, in how far is he to be compared with Wordsworth as a poet of childhood? Preliminary, however, to all other problems is a proper interpretation of the man himself in and through his own writings. And, with sufficient diffidence, yet with that right to judge which is gained by a careful progress through the literature concerned, the present writer permits himself to think that De Quincey has not been in all respects clearly understood, and that the following pages may throw some light upon his mental make-up and the nature of his literary productions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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