Opium and the Romantic Imagination

Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Endpapers replaced. Dust-jacket in clear plastic cover, taped to boards and endpapers. ; 388 pages + frontispiece + 9 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 133mm. "Does the habit of taking drugs make an author write better, or worse, or differently Does it alter the quality of his consciousness, shape his imagery, influence his technique For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Foreword and Acknowledgements; Part I - Setting: Tradition; Case-Histories; Dreams; Contemporary Imagery; Part II - Theory: De Quincey (I); Poe; Baudelaire and the Club des Haschischins; Part III - Practice: Crabbe; Coleridge; De Quincey (II); Wilkie Collins; Francis Thompson; Some Writers Who Took Opium Occasionally; Keats; Part IV - Verdict: The Buried Temple; Postscript; References and Notes; Index.

Product Info

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Year: (1968)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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