Opium and the Romantic Imagination

Author : Alethea Hayter

Paperback

Published : Thursday 17 September 2009

ISBN : 9780571254163

Price : €23.40

Description

Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? This work examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of other writers who are known to have taken opium at times.

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