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— The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850, edited by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams and Stephen Gill, New York: W. W. Norton, 1979
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Newspapers and contemporary magazines
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
The Courier
Edinburgh Review
Hogg’s Edinburgh Magazine
London Magazine
Morning Chronicle
Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine
The Times
The Westmorland Gazette
Acknowledgements
In true De Quinceyian spirit, I am indebted to those who came before me. Without the scholarship of Grevel Lindop, readers of Thomas De Quincey would still be snowed-in beneath mountains of disordered material. The fine biographies by Grevel Lindop and Robert Morrison, The Opium-Eater and The English Opium Eater, were my constant guides, as was John Barrell’s rich and provocative study, The Infection of Thomas De Quincey.
For reading and correcting the manuscript I am grateful to Paul Keegan and A. N. Wilson. Thanks are also due to the staff of the Rare Books Room of the British Library, William St Clair, Ada Wordsworth, my agent, Sarah Chalfant, my editor, Michael Fishwick, my copyeditor, Kate Johnson, and to the irreplaceable Anna Simpson.
Index
Abergavenny, here
Ablass, William, here, here
Ackroyd, Peter, here
Advice to Opium-Eaters, here
Aeschylus, here, here
Albion and Evening Advertiser, here
Alcibiades, here
Alexander, Daniel Asher, here
Alfoxden, here, here, here
Allan Bank, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Altamont, Lord, here, here, here
Ambleside, here, here, here, here, here
Analytical Review, here
Anderson, Mr, here
Ann (prostitute), here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Anti-Jacobin, here
Arabian Nights, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
story of ‘Aladdin’, here, here
Archimedes, here
Arctic voyages, here
Aristotle, here
Athenaeum, here
Austen, Jane, here, here
autobiography, as literary form, here
Bagehot, Walter, here
Baird-Smith, Colonel here
Baker of Mannheim, the, here, here
Ballard, J. G., here
Balzac, Honoré de, here
Bangor, here, here
Banks, Joseph, here
Barrett, Elizabeth, here
Barrie, J. M., here
Bastille, fall of, here, here
Bath, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and De Quincey’s early years, here, here
Bath Abbey, here, here
Baudelaire, Charles, here, here, here, here
Bearcroft, Miss, here
Beattie, James, here
Beaumont, Sir George, here, here, here
Beaumont, Lady, here, here
beautiful, the, here, here, here see also sublime, the
Beckett, Samuel, here
Belcher, Thomas, here
Bell’s Illustrated London Life, here
Bellingham, John, here, here
Benson, John, here, here
Beowulf, here
Berkeley, Bishop, here
Berlioz, Hector, here
Best, Anabela, here, here, here, here, here
Beswick, Hannah, here
Birmingham, here, here, here
Blackwood, Robert, here, here, here
Blackwood, William, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
De Quincey parodied in, here
De Quincey writes for, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and John Scott duel, here
love of the macabre, here
murder essays, here, here
and parody, here
Poe and, here, here, here
rivalled by Tait’s, here
Robert Blackwood takes over, here
seals Coleridge’s reputation, here
superiority to London Magazine, here
takes revenge on De Quincey, here
Blake, Miss, here
Blake, William, here, here, here
Borges, Jorge Luis, here, here, here
‘Funes the Memorious’, here
Boswell, James, here, here, here
Boughton, Sir Theophilus, here
Bracciolini, Poggio, here
Brasenose College, Oxford, here, here
Bridgwater, here, here, here
Bristol, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and De Quincey’s early years, here
St Mary Redcliffe church, here, here, here, here, here, here
British Critic, The, here
Brocken, the, here, here
Brodie, Deacon, here
Brontë, Bramwell, here, here
Brontë, Emily, here
Brontë sisters, here, here, here
Brooke, Rev. Stopford, here
brotherhoods and clubs, here
Brotherton, Mr, here
Brown, Colin Rae, here
Brunell, Mr, here
Bruno, Giordano, here
Burke, Edmund, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
compared with Johnson, here
and the sublime, here, here, here
his theory of fear, here
Burke, William, here
Burns, Robert, here, here, here, here
Burroughs, William, here
Butler, Lady Eleanor, here
Byron, Lord, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Cabot, John, here
Caernarfon, here
Calvert, Canon Rawnsley, here
Cambridge, here
Cambridge University, here, here, here, here, here
Canynges, Sir William, here
Capote, Truman, here
Carbery, Lady, here, here, here
Carlyle, Jane, here
Carlyle, Thomas, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and Coleridge’s death, here
Emerson as palimpsest of, here
friendship with De Quincey, here
Caroline, Queen, here
Caroline Cottage, here
Carroll, Lewis, here, here
Casanova, here
Castlereagh, Lord, here
Charles II, King, here
Chatterton, Thomas, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Chaucer, Geoffrey, here
Cheap Repository Tracts, here
Chester
and flight from Manchester, here
New Linen Hall, here
the Priory, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Christ Church College, Oxford, here
Christie, Jonathan, here
Clapham Sect, here
Clappersgate, here
Clare, Lord, here, here
Clare, John, here
Clarke, Mr, here, here
Clarke, Mrs (Duke of York’s mistress), here
Clarkson, Catherine, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘cloud architecture’, here
Cobbett, William, here
Cocteau, Jean, here
Coenen, William, here, here, here
Coldbath Fields Prison, here
Coleridge, Derwent, here, here
Coleridge, Hartley, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
and apparitions, here, here, here
and Arabian Nights, here
and the Beaumonts, here
belief in the afterlife, here
breach with Wordsworth, here, here, here, here
caricatured by Lloyd, here
and Chatterton, here
and Cintra pamphlet, here
De Quincey meets, here, here, here
De Quincey models character on, here
and De Quincey’s Autobiographic Sketches, here, here
and De Quincey’s Confessions, here
De Quincey’s early admiration for, here
and De Quincey’s essays, here, here
and De Quincey’s gift/loan, here, here
and De Quincey’s gossip, here
and De Quincey’s ‘The Household Wreck’, here
and De Quincey’s Klosterheim, here
De Quincey’s later preoccupation with, here
and De Quincey’s list of important poets, here
and De Quincey’s meeting with Lamb, here
and De Quincey’s meeting with Wordsworth, here
and De Quincey’s ‘Postscript’, here
and De Quincey’s ‘Sketch of Professor Wilson’, here
description of friendship, here
edits The Friend, here, here, here
edits The Watchman, here
Everton literary circle and, here, here
and French Revolution, here
Gillman’s biography of, here
guest at Allan Bank, here, here, here, here
guest at Grasmere, here
habits of mind, here, here
ill health, here, here, here
lecture series, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
likeness to De Quincey, here
living in Malta, here, here
his marriage, here, here
meets Wordsworth, here, here, here
moves to Keswick, here
and murder panic, here, here
and Napoleon’s Comet, here
opium addiction, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and Oxford Street fire, here
and Piranesi, here
his politics, here, here
praises Edinburgh, here
publishes opium poems, here
relationship with Wordsworth, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
residence in Highgate and death, here
returns to England, here, here, here
Romeo and Juliet lecture, here, here
Scottish tour, here, here, here
and Southey, here, here
and Spencer Perceval murder, here
his theory of poetry, here
and time-keeping, here
and water imagery, here
Wordsworth’s ‘friend’ in Lyrical Ballads, here, here, here
and Wordsworth’s Prelude, here, here
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, WORKS
‘The Ancient Mariner’, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Biographia Literaria, here, here
‘Christabel’, here, here
‘The Dungeon’, here
The Fall of Robespierre, here
‘The Foster-Mother’s Tale’, here
‘Kubla Khan’, here, here, here, here
‘Love’, here, here
‘The Nightingale’, here
‘The Pains of Sleep’, here, here
Poems on Various Subjects, here
‘The Wanderings of Cain’, here
‘To William Wordsworth’, here see also Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge, Sara, here, here
Coleridge, Sarah, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Collins, Wilkie, here
Collins, William, here
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
adapted by Baudelaire, here
Bramwell Brontë and, here
and Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner, here
and opium, here, here
origin in magazine articles, here
and Piranesi dreams, here
Poe and, here, here
and Suspiria de Profundis, here
and visit of Malay, here, here, here
Coniston, here
Convention of Cintra, here, here
Conwy, here, here
Conyngham, Lady, here
Cook, John, here
Cornelys, Teresa, here
Cornhill Magazine, here
Cornwallis, Lord, here
Cottle, Joseph, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Cotton, Joseph, here
Cotton, Sir Robert, here
Courier, The, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Cowper, William, here
Cragg, Mr, here, here, here
Craig, Miss, here, here
craniology, here
Croagh Patrick, here
crocodiles, here, here
Croft, Sir Herbert, here
Crump, Mr, here
Cumberland, Duke of, here, here
Currie, James, here, here, here
Dartmoor prison, here
Dawe, George, here
Dawson, Mary, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
de Musset, Alfred, here
De Quincey, Emily, here, here, here, here
De Quincey, Florence, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
De Quincey, Francis, here, here, here
De Quincey, Horatio (‘Horace’), here, here, here, here
De Quincey, Margaret, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
death, here
and Dorothy Wordsworth, here, here, here, here
and husband’s opium addiction, here
marriage, here, here
pursued by creditors, here
suffers depression, here
De Quincey, Margaret Thomasina, here, here, here, here, here, here
De Quincey, Paul Frederick, here, here, here
De Quincey, Thomas
and architecture, here
attitude to journalism, here
his birth, here
book collecting, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
breach with Wordsworth, here
buys murder pamphlets, here
and Catherine Wordsworth’s death, here
and his children, here, here
and the Dark Interpreter, here, here, here
death and burial, here
his diary, here, here, here, here, here
diminutive stature, here, here, here, here, here
and doppelgängers, here, here, here, here, here, here
early love of reading, here, here, here, here
edits Westmorland Gazette, here
education, here, here, here
and effeminacy, here, here, here
enjoys dancing and drinking, here
and essay writing, here
and family name, here, here
and father’s death, here
and fear, here
‘first literary acquaintance’, here
flight from school and walking tour, here, here
formative experience in London, here
gains disciples, here
and houses, here, here, here, here, here
hypochondria, here, here
ill-health, here, here, here
and importance of literary criticism, here
income and money management, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
likeness to Coleridge, here
lists intended works, here
lists most important poets, here
lists sources of happiness, here, here, here
literary legacy, here
literary style, here, here, here, here, here
manuscripts and collected works, here, here
marriage, here, here
meets Coleridge, here
meets Wordsworth, here
and memory, here
and mother’s death, here
as novelist, here
observes growth of his mind, here
opium addiction, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
opium articles, here
pedantry, here, here
as ‘Peter Quince’, here
polite manners, here, here, here
politics, here, here, here, here
‘Pope of Opium’, here
pursued by creditors, here, here, here, here, here, here
reads Wordsworth’s Prelude, here, here, here
relationship with brother, here, here
sale of his library, here
self-esteem, here, here
sense of entitlement, here
sense of guilt, here
sexuality, here, here, here, here
shyness, here
and sister’s death, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and social status, here
style of talk, here
and time-keeping, here, here, here
‘uncertainty of his whereabouts’, here
university education, here, here
and wife’s death, here
writing under influence of opium, here
De Quincey, Thomas, WORKS
‘Analects of Jean Paul Richter’, here
Autobiographic Sketches, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘The Avenger’, here, here
‘Cyrus & Elam’, here
‘The English Mail-Coach’, here, here, here, here
‘Great Forgers: Chatterton, and Walpole, and “Junius”’, here
‘The Household Wreck’, here, here, here, here
Klosterheim, here, here
‘Lake Reminiscences’, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘Letters from a Modern Author to his Daughters’, here
‘Letters to a Young Man Whose Education Has Been Neglected’, here, here, here
‘Milton v Southey’, here