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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CRITICAL APPRECIATIONS De Qtjincey's fame, established in his lifetime, has been growing ever since, and is still growing. He has, one may say, a constituency of special admirers over all the English-speaking world; and, by very evident signs, the circle of this constituency is every year extending itself. And why ? Because every year it is more and more widely recognized that this strange man, dead now so many years ago, is one of the princes of English prose literature, and an almost unique personality in the whole history of English literature, whether in prose or in verse. . . . The English Mail-Coach and the Suspiria de Pro- fundis have a certain interconnection, and possess between them the supreme interest in the class to which they belong. The first two sections of The English Mail- Coach are noble pieces of prose-poetry, and more successful, all in all, I think, than the appended Dream Fugue. Though that is an extraordinary piece of writing, too, and gains on one, perhaps, by repeated reading. The first three fragments of the Suspiria, besides being but a kind of wreckage from prior materials, are somewhat didactic in their tenor, and only prepare the way, and that rather raggedly, for the Memorial Suspiria, and the fragments called Savannah-la-Mar and Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow. Most memorable pieces of impassioned prose-phantasy are all these three; but it is the last that is transcendent. Even alone, that would have made De Quincey immortal. ? David Masson, Prefaces to De Quincey's Works. De Quincey is sometimes noisy and flatulent, sometimes trivial, sometimes unpardonably discursive. But when he is at his best, the rapidity of his mind, its lucidity, its humor and good sense, the writer's passionate loyalty to letters, and his organ-melody of style, co...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459090736
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 54
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 145909073X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 113 gr


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