Illustrations of Genius; In Some of Its Relations to Culture and Society
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1859. Excerpt: ... THOMAS DE QUINCEY. To a writer such as De Quincey, so wide in the range of his power, so multifarious in his topics, so versatile in his genius, so manifold in his scholarly acquisitions and accomplishments, we cannot do full justice within the limits of a single essay. All we propose, therefore, is to mark some of his peculiarities. The idea of De Quincey which the mind calls up first and most vividly is that of a dreamer -- a great dreamer -- a dreamer entirely singular, alone amidst all secular literature. Like a spirit at the entrance of an enchanted region, the opium vision keeps the passage to that magnificent and ideal kingdom which De Quincey has created for us in the world of mind; it arrests us at the portal; we converse with it in a strange delight; and it puts a spell upon us which cannot be shaken off, countercharm as wisely as we may. We must look at and speak with it until our spirits learn to he tranquil. It is thus that the earliest production of De Quincey affects us; and it is through that earliest production we come in the beginning to know him. This is first in the order of reading; it is first also in the order of impression; though it is not according to the order of worth. In every generation, persons will enter into acquaintance with De Quincey through The Confessions. Persons are likely to begin to know him by that in which he began to write; and herein, for advantage or for injury, a difference lies between him and some others of the great in literature. Others as well as he began with what was morbid and impassioned. Indeed, in minds of heat and power, this is natural. It is natural that the embryo of a giant imagination yet enveloped in sense and passion should make manifest its existence and its coming birth in spasms and in qualms. A sickness of this k...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150895074
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 94
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150895071
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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