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Opium and the Romantic Imagination

By Alethea Hayter

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1970
ISBN
0520017463, 9780520017467
LCC
68-29700
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24934457 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
\406
Topic
Literature Literary
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-11-29 16:24:07
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Description

Does the habit of taking drugs make an author writebetter, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the qualityof his consciousness, shape his imagery, influence histechnique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenthcentury, many of whom experimented with opium andsome of whom were addicted to it, this was an importantquestion, but it has never been fully answered. In thisstudy Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers—Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and FrancisThompson—who were opium addicts for many years, andof several other writers—notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poeand Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs.Browning, James Thomson and others—who are known tohave taken opium at times.

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