Thomas De Quincey bibliography
This is a bibliography of works by Thomas De Quincey (15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859), a romantic English writer. Chiefly remembered today for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), De Quincey's oeuvre includes literary criticism, poetry, and a large selection of reviews, translations and journalism. His private correspondence and diary have also been published.
Essays
[edit]1820s
[edit]- 1819–20
- "Danish Origin of the Lake-country Dialect". Westmorland Gazette. November 13, December 4 and 18, 1819, and January 8, 1820.[1][2]
- 1821
- 1822
- 1823
- "Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected." (January); "No. II" (February); "No. III. On Languages" (March)
- "Anecdotage" (March)[3]
- "Death of a German Great Man" (April)[4]
- "Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected". "No. IV. On Language" (May); "No. V. On the English Notices of Kant" (July)
- "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. I" (September)
- "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. II" (October)
- "Malthus"[5]
- "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth"
- "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. III. English Dictionaries" (November)
- "Measure of Value" (December)
- "To the Editor of the London Magazine" (December)[6]
- 1824
- "Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and Free-masons" (January); (February); (March); "Appendix" (June)[7]
- "The Services of Mr. Ricardo to the Science of Political Economy" (March)
- "Kant on National Character in Relation to the Sense of the Sublime and Beautiful" (April)
- "Education. Plans for the Instruction of Boys in Large Numbers" (April); (May)
- "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. IV" (June)
- "False Distinctions"
- "Madness"
- "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. V" (July)
- "Superficial Knowledge"
- "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. VI" (December)
- "Falsification of the History of England"
- "Falsification of English History by Hume"
- "Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" (August); (September)
- "Walladmor, Sir Walter Scott's German Novel"
- 1825
- 1826
- 1827
- "Gallery of the German Prose Classics". "No. II.—Lessing" (January); "No. III.—Kant" (February)
- "On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts" (February)
- 1828
- "Elements of Rhetoric" (December)[9]
Edinburgh Literary Gazette
- 1829
- "Sketch of Professor Wilson, Parts I–III" (June 6 & 20, July 11)
1830s
[edit]- 1830
- "Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays" (August)
- "Life of Richard Bentley" (September); (October)
- 1831
- "Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries" (January), (February); (May); (June)
- 1832
- "Cæsars", (October); II. Augustus (December)
- 1833
- Blackwood's Magazine
- The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs, Volume 1
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- "Mrs. Hannah More" (December)
- 1834
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- "Animal Magnetism" (January)[10]
- "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" (February); (March); (April); "The Irish Rebellion" (May); (August)
- "Travelling in England Thirty Years Ago: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" (December)
- "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" (September); (October);[11] (November)
- Blackwood's Magazine
- "The Cæsars". "IV. The Patriot Emperors" (June); (July); "Conclusion" (August)
- 1835
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" (January)
- "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater, Oxford" (February); (June); (August)
- "A Tory's Account of Toryism, Whiggism and Radicalism" (December)[12]
- 1836
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- 1837
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- "Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Literary Connexions or Acquaintances" (February); (March)[13]
- Blackwood's Magazine
- "Revolt of the Tartars" (July)[14]
- 1838
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" (March)
- "Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Recollections of Charles Lamb" (April); (June); (September)[15]
- "A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Literature in its Foremost Pretensions" (December)
- 1839
- Blackwood's Magazine
- "The English Language" (April)
- "On Hume's Argument Against Miracles" (July)
- "Casuistry" (October)
- "On the True Relations to Civilisation and Barbarism of the Roman Western Empire" (November)[16]
- "Second Paper on Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts" (November)[17]
- "Milton" (December)
- "Dinner Real and Reputed" (December)[18]
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
1840s
[edit]- 1840
- Blackwood's Magazine
- "On the Essenes" (January)
- "Theory of Greek Tragedy" (February)
- "Casuistry" (part 2) (February)
- "War with China, and the Opium Question" (March)
- "On the Essenes, Part II" (April)
- "Modern Superstition" (April)
- "On the Essenes, Part III" (May)
- "The Opium and the China Question" (June)
- "Postscript On The China and the Opium Question" (June)
- "Style" (July); No. II (September); No. III (October)
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater".
- 1841
- Blackwood's Magazine
- "Style. No. IV" (February)
- "The Dourraunee Empire" (March)
- "Plato's Republic" (July)
- "Homer and the Homeridæ" (October); Part II. The Iliad (November); Part III. Verdict on the Homeric Questions (December)
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- 1842
- Blackwood's Magazine
- "Philosophy of Herodotus" (January)
- "The Pagan Oracles" (March)
- "Cicero" (July)
- "Modern Greece" (July)
- "Ricardo Made Easy; or, What is the Radical Difference between Ricardo and Adam Smith? With an Occasional Notice of Ricardo's Oversights" (September); (October); (December)[19]
- 1843
- Blackwood's Magazine
- "Ceylon" (November)
- 1844
- Blackwood's Magazine
- "Secession from the Church of Scotland" (February)
- "Greece Under the Romans" (October)
- 1845
- Blackwood's Magazine
- "Coleridge and Opium-eating" (January)
- "Suspiria de Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater" (March)
- Introductory Notice (March)
- Part I (April)
- Part I. Concluded. The Palimpsest" (June)
- Part II (July)
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- "On Wordsworth's Poetry" (September)
- "On the Temperance Movement of Modern Times" (October)
- "Notes on Gilfillan's 'Gallery of Literary Portraits'". Godwin & Foster. (November); Hazlitt & Shelley. (December)
- 1846
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- "Notes on Gilfillan's 'Gallery of Literary Portraits'. Shelley." (January)
- "The Antigone of Sophocles as Represented on the Edinburgh Stage in December 1845" (February); (March)
- "Memoirs and Correspondance of the Marquess Wellesley" (March)
- "On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement" (April)
- "Notes on Gilfillan's 'Gallery of Literary Portraits'. Keats." (April)
- "On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement" (June)
- "Glance at the Works of Mackintosh" (July)
- "System of the Heavens as Revealed by Lord Rosse's Telescopes" (September)
- 1847
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- "Notes on Walter Savage Landor". (January); (February)
- "Orthographic Mutineers" (March)
- "Joan of Arc: In Reference to M. Michelet's History of France" (March)
- "Milton versus Southey and Landor" (April)
- "The Nautico-Military Nun of Spain". (May); (June); (July)
- "Secret Societies" (August)
- "Joan of Arc" (August)
- "Schlosser's Literary History of the Eighteenth Century" (September)
- "Secret Societies. Part II." (October)
- "Conversation" (October)
- "Schlosser's Literary History of the Eighteenth Century" (October)
- "Protestantism". (November); (December)
- 1848
- The Glasgow Athenæum Album
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- "Protestantism" (February)
- The North British Review
- "Forster's Life of Goldsmith" (May)
- "Pope" (August)
- "Charles Lamb and his Friends" (November)
- 1849
- Blackwood's Magazine
1850s
[edit]- 1850
- 1851
- Hogg's Weekly Instructor
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
- 1852
- Hogg's Weekly Instructor
- "A Sketch from Childhood"
- "Sir William Hamilton, Bart"
- "California"
- "Sir William Hamilton, with a Glance at his Logical Reforms"; Second Paper
- 1853
Fiction
[edit]Novel
[edit]- Klosterheim Or, the Masque. William Blackwood, 1832.[20]
Stories
[edit]- "Dialogues of Three Templars on Political Economy". London Magazine. April & May, 1824. [21]
- "The Household Wreck". Blackwood's Magazine, 1838.[22]
- "The Avenger". Blackwood's Magazine, 1838.
Academic
[edit]- "Appendix" in Concerning the Relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal. William Wordsworth. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.[23]
- Encyclopædia Britannica, 7th edition. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1842.[24]
- "Goethe, John Wolfgang Von" (Volume 10)
- "Pope, Alexander" (Volume 18)
- "Schiller, John Christopher Frederick Von" (Volume 19)
- "Shakespeare" (Volume 20)
German Translations
[edit]Collected works
[edit]De Quincey's Writings
[edit]23 volumes. Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850–9. Edited by James Thomas Fields.[39]
- Confessions of an English opium-eater; and Suspiria de profundis. 1850.
- Biographical essays. 1850.
- The Cæsars. 1851.
- Miscellaneous essays. 1851.
- Life and manners. 1851.
- Literary reminiscences; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater, 2 volumes. 1851.
- Memorials, and other papers, 2 volumes. 1851.
- Autobiographic sketches. 1853.
- Narrative and miscellaneous papers, 2 volumes. 1853.
- Essays on the poets, and other English writers. 1853.
- Historical and critical essays, 2 volumes. 1853.
- Essays on philosophical writers, and other men of letters, 2 volumes. 1854.
- Theological essays, and other papers, 2 volumes. 1854.
- Letters to a young man, and other papers. 1854.
- Note-book of an English Opium-eater. 1855.
- The Avenger, and other papers. 1859.
- Logic of political economy, and other papers. 1859.
Selections Grave and Gay
[edit]from Writings Published and Unpublished, by Thomas De Quincey, 14 volumes. James Hogg, 1853–60.
- I–II. Autobiographic sketches, 2 volumes. 1853-4.
- III-IV. Miscellanies. 1854.
- The Spanish military nun. The last days of Immanuel Kant, etc.
- On murder considered as one of the fine arts. Revolt of the Tartars, etc.
- V. Confessions of an English opium-eater. 1856.
- VI. Sketches Critical and Biographic. 1857.
- VII. Studies on secret records, personal and historic. 1858.
- VIII. Essays sceptical and anti-sceptical, on problems neglected or misconceived. 1858.
- IX. Leaders in literature, with a notice of traditional errors affecting them. 1858.
- X. Classic records reviewed or deciphered. 1859.
- XI. Critical suggestions on style and rhetoric. 1859.
- XII-XIII. Speculations, literary and philosophic, with German tales, and other narrative papers. 1859.
- Prefatory note. Ceylon. The King of Hayti, etc.
- Lord Carlisle on Pope. Glance at the works of Mackintosh, etc.
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey
[edit]14 volumes. A. & C. Black, 1889–90. Edited by David Masson.
- I. Autobiography, from 1785 to 1803.
- II. Autobiography and literary reminiscences.
- III. London reminiscences, and Confessions of an opium-eater.
- IV. Biographies and biographic sketches.
- V. Biographies and biographic sketches.
- VI. Historical Essays and Researches.
- VII. Historical essays and researches.
- VIII. Speculative and theological essays.
- IX. Political economy and politics.
- X. Literary theory and criticism.
- XI. Literary theory and criticism.
- XII. Tales and romances.
- XIII. Tales and prose phantasies.
- XIV. Miscellanea and Index.
The Works of Thomas De Quincey
[edit]21 volumes. Pickering and Chatto, 2000–3. Edited by Grevel Lindop. Volume editors: Frederick Burwick, David Groves, Lindop, Robert Morrison, Barry Symonds.
- 1. Writings, 1799–1820
- 2. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821–1856
- 3. Articles and Translations from The London Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine and Others, 1821–1824
- 4. Articles and Translations from The London Magazine; Walladmor; 1824–1825
- 5. Articles from the Edinburgh Saturday Post, 1827–1828
- 6. Articles from the Edinburgh Evening Post, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the Edinburgh Literary Gazette, 1826–1829
- 7. Articles from the Edinburgh Literary Gazette and Blackwood's Magazine, 1829–1831
- 8. Articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and The Gallery of Portraits; Klosterheim: or, The Masque; 1831–2
- 9. Articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1832–8
- 10. Articles from Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1834–8
- 11. Articles from Tait's Magazine and Blackwood's Magazine, 1838–41
- 12. Articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1840–1
- 13. Articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1841–2
- 14. Articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1842–3
- 15. Articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1844–6
- 16. Articles from Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Macphail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal, the Glasgow Athenaeum Album, the North British Review, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1847–9
- 17. Articles from Hogg's Instructor and Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1850–2
- 18. 1853–8
- 19. Autobiographical Sketches
- 20. Prefaces &c., to the Collected Editions, Published Addenda, Marginalia, Manuscript Addenda, Undatable Manuscripts
- 21. Transcripts of Unlocated Manuscripts
Selections
[edit]- The Logic of Political Economy. William Blackwood and Sons, 1844.
- The Art of Conversation and Other Papers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1863.
- De Quincey's Editorship of The Westmorland Gazette. Kendal: Atkinson and Pollitt, 1890.
- Theory of Greek Tragedy. San Francisco, Cal.: William Doxey, 1893.
- Revolt of the Tartars. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1898.
- A Diary of Thomas De Quincey, 1803. Edited by Horace A. Eaton. Noel Douglas, 1927.
- California and the Gold Mania. San Francisco: Colt Press, 1945.
- Selected Writings of Thomas De Quincey. The Modern Library, 1949. Edited by Philip Van Doren Stern.
- New Essays by De Quincey. Princeton University Press, 1966. Edited by Stuart M. Tave.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Green, John Albert (1908). Thomas De Quincey. Manchester: Free Reference Library, p. 3.
- ^ Downing, Richard (1978). "De Quincey and the Westmorland Gazette," Charles Lamb Bulletin, New Series, Vol. XXIII, pp. 145–56.
- ^ Review of Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs.
- ^ On Johann Gottfried Herder.
- ^ William Hazlitt suggested that De Quincey might have plagiarized his refutation of Malthus: "To the Editor of the London Magazine," London Magazine, Vol. VIII, 1823, pp. 459–60. See also: Paulin, Tom (2006). Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays. London: Routledge, p. 107.
- ^ De Quincey's reply to Hazlitt's accusation.
- ^ Digested from a German work on the subject by J.G. Buhle.
- ^ Skit upon the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
- ^ Review of Richard Whately's Elements of Rhetoric.
- ^ This paper is in the main a review of J.C. Colquhoun's translation of the French Academy of Sciences' Report of the Experiments on Animal Magnetism (1833).
- ^ Partially reprinted as "Mary of Buttermere," Hogg's Instructor, Vol. IX, 1852, pp. 215–6.
- ^ De Quincey anomalous position as a Tory contributor to the liberal Tait's Edinburgh Magazine has drawn puzzled comment from several of his critics. See: Morrison, Robert (1998). "Red De Quincey," The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 131–136.
- ^ An angry letter from the Rev. William Shepherd in reference to De Quincey's remarks is dealt with by the Editor, William Tait. See: "Mr. De Quincey, and the Literary Society of Liverpool in 1801", Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. IV, 1837, pp. 337–340.
- ^ De Quincey took the basic facts presented here from a narrative by the German traveller Benjamin Bergmann, entitled Versuch zur Geschichte der Kalmükenflucht von der Wolga ("Essay on the History of the Flight of the Kalmucks from the Volga").
- ^ Not included by De Quincey among his Collected Writings, but reprinted in 1871 in the second of the Supplementary Volumes to A. & C. Black's reissue of the Collected Writings.
- ^ This paper was published by David Masson with the title "Philosophy of Roman History"; it was not reprinted by De Quincey in his edition of his collected writings. See:The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 6. London: A. & C. Black, 1896, pp. 429–447.
- ^ A long Postscript was added in the author's edition of his collected works (Selections Grave & Gay, v. IV, 1:854).
- ^ Reprinted under the title "The Casuistry of Roman Meals." See: The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 7. London: A. & C. Black, 1897, pp. 11–43.
- ^ Robertson, William Bell (1905). Political Economy: Expositions of Its Fundamental Doctrines. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., p. xix.
- ^ Pirated: Klosterheim Or, the Masque. Boston: Whittemore, Niles and Hall, 1855 (with a biographical preface by Shelton Mackenzie). Reprinted: Klosterheim Or, the Masque. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Woodbridge Press, 1982 (with an introduction by John Weeks). See: De Quincey, Thomas. Articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and The Gallery of Portraits; Klosterheim: or, The Masque; 1831–2, edited by Robert Morrison. Vol. 8 of The Works of Thomas De Quincey, ed. Grevel Lindop. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001. 223.
- ^ Reprinted: David Ricardo: Critical Responses, Vol. 2. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
- ^ Often linked to Kafka's The Trial. See: Bridgwater, Patrick (2004). De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 148.
- ^ Wise, Thomas J. (1916). A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, p. 75.
- ^ Bateson, F.W. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press, 1969. 649.
- ^ Reprinted: The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864.
- ^ The attribution to De Quincey is only circumstantial. Burwick, Frederick, ed. (2000). The Works of Thomas De Quincey. Vol. 3. London: Pickering & Chatto. pp. 411–412. ISBN 1851960546.
- ^ Morrison, Robert (2009). The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
- ^ Published anonymously.
- ^ Burwick, Frederick (2013). "De Quincey and the King of Hayti," The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 44, No. 2/3, p. 83.
- ^ "Der Rabe: Griechisches Märchen". Gespensterbuch. Vol. 2. Leipzig: G. J. Göschen. 1811. pp. 318–322. ISBN 978-3-628-36571-3.
- ^ a b c d Morrison, Robert (2010). "Chapter 9: En Route". The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey. New York: Pegasus Books. pp. 227–228, 238. ISBN 9781605982809.
- ^ a b c d Gray, G. J. (1 October 1881). "Knight's Quarterly Magazine". Notes and Queries. 4 (92): 261.
- ^ Partial translation of Dreams of a Spirit-seer (1766).
- ^ Attributed to De Quincey in James Hogg's The Uncollected Writings of Thomas De Quincey (1890), and David Masson's The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey (1897). More likely to have been translated by Julius Hare.Galinsky, Hans K. (1937). "Is Thomas De Quincey the Author of The Love-Charm?". Modern Language Notes. 52 (6). Johns Hopkins University Press: 389–394. doi:10.2307/2911709. ISSN 0149-6611. JSTOR 2911709.
- ^ De Quincey, Thomas. Articles and translations from the London Magazine; Walladmor; 1824–1825. F. Burwick (Ed.). The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 4. G. Lindop (Ed.) Pickering & Chatto, 2000. 262f.
- ^ Selective translation of Immanuel Kant in seinen letzten Lebensjahren. Ein Beytrag zur Kenntniss seines Charakters und häuslichen Lebens aus dem täglichen Umgange mit ihn Königsberg: Nicolovius, 1804. See: Goldman, Arnold. The Mine and the Mint: Sources for the Writings of Thomas De Quincey Southern Illinois University Press, 1965. 68–75.
- ^ Not a direct translation, but a very minute abstract from a similar dissertation by Anton Theodor Hartmann, under the title of Die Hebräerin am Putztische und als Braut (1809).
Reprinted:
- Toilette of the Hebrew Lady, Exhibited in Six Scenes. Hartford, Conn.: E.V. Mitchell, 1926.
- ^ A partial English translation of Kant's essay The Question, whether the Earth is Ageing, considered from the Physical Point of View (1754). See: Watkins, Eric (2002). Immanuel Kant: Natural Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 165.
- ^ Green, John Albert. Thomas De Quincey: A Bibliography Based upon the de Quincey collection in the Moss Side Library. Manchester-Public Free Library, 1908. 24–7.