thomas de quincey

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Definition of thomas de quincey in English English dictionary

born Aug. 15, 1785, Manchester, Lancashire, Eng. died Dec. 8, 1859, Edinburgh, Scot. English essayist and critic. While a student at Oxford he first took opium to relieve the pain of facial neuralgia. He became a lifelong addict, an experience that inspired his best-known work, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822), whose highly poetic and imaginative prose has made it an enduring masterpiece of English style. As a critic he is best known for the essay "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" (1823)

Hyphenation

Thom·as de quincey

Turkish pronunciation

tämıs dı kwînsi

Pronunciation

/ˈtäməs də ˈkwənsē/ /ˈtɑːməs də ˈkwɪnsiː/