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 oeuvre includes literary criticism, poetry, and a large selection of reviews, translations and journalism. His private correspondence and diary has also been published.
Thomas De Quincey, by James Archer.
Essays
Title | Date | First publisher | Notes |
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| "Danish Origin of the Lake-country Dialect" | 1819 | Westmorland Gazette | A series of articles published in November 13, December 4 and 18, 1819, and January 8, 1820.[1][2]
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| "Confessions of an English Opium-eater" | 1821 | London Magazine | The first and briefer version, afterwards absorbed into the enlarged edition of 1856. Also issued separately in 1822. |
| "Confessions of an English Opium-eater" | 1821 | London Magazine | Second paper. A letter by the author, in reply to James Montgomery, also appeared on this issue.[3] An appendix to De Quincey's Confessions was published in 1822.[4] |
| "John Paul Frederick Richter" | 1821 | London Magazine | |
| "Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. No. I" | 1823 | London Magazine | Reprinted:
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| "Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. No. II" | 1823 | London Magazine | Second paper. |
| "Anecdotage" | 1823 | London Magazine | Review of Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs. |
| "Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. No. III. On Languages" | 1823 | London Magazine | Third paper. |
| "Death of a German Great Man" | 1823 | London Magazine | On Johann Gottfried Herder. |
| "Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. No. IV. On Languages" | 1823 | London Magazine | Fourth paper. |
| "Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. No. V. On the English Notices of Kant" | 1823 | London Magazine | Final paper |
| "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. I" | 1823 | London Magazine | |
| "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. II" | 1823 | London Magazine | In a letter to T.A. Hessey,[5] publisher of the London Magazine, William Hazlitt suggested that, while composing this article, De Quincey might have plagiarized from his refutation of Malthus written years before.[6] A reply soon followed.[7] |
| "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" | 1823 | London Magazine | Though brief, this essay has been called "De Quincey's finest single critical piece"[8] and "one of the most penetrating critical footnotes in our literature."[9] Commentators who are dismissive of De Quincey's literary criticism in general make an exception for his essay on Macbeth.[10] |
| "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. III" | 1823 | London Magazine | |
| "Measure of Value" | 1823 | London Magazine | |
| "Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and Free-masons" | 1824 | London Magazine | Digested from a German work on the subject by J.G. Buhle. |
| "Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and Free-masons" | 1824 | London Magazine | Second paper. |
| "Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and Free-masons" | 1824 | London Magazine | Third paper. |
| "Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and Free-masons" | 1824 | London Magazine | Appendix. |
| "The Services of Mr. Ricardo to the Science of Political Economy" | 1824 | London Magazine | |
| "Kant on National Character in Relation to the Sense of the Sublime and Beautiful" | 1824 | London Magazine | |
| "Education. Plans for the Instruction of Boys in Large Numbers" | 1824 | London Magazine | |
| "Education. Plans for the Instruction of Boys in Large Numbers" | 1824 | London Magazine | Second paper |
| "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. IV" | 1824 | London Magazine | |
| "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. V" | 1824 | London Magazine | |
| "Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. VI" | 1824 | London Magazine | |
| "Goethe" | 1824 | London Magazine | Review of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. |
| "Goethe" | 1824 | London Magazine | |
| "Walladmor, Sir Walter Scott's German Novel" | 1824 | London Magazine | |
| "The Street Companion" | 1825 | London Magazine | Skit upon the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin. |
| "Lessing" | 1826 | Blackwood's Magazine | First article of a series on the German prose classics. |
| "Lessing" | 1827 | Blackwood's Magazine | Second paper, with notes and a postscript. |
| "Kant" | 1827 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "On Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts" | 1827 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Elements of Rhetoric" | 1828 | Blackwood's Magazine | Review of Richard Whately's Elements of Rhetoric. |
| "Professor Wilson" | 1829 | Edinburgh Literary Gazette | On John Wilson. |
| "Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays" | 1830 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Life of Richard Bentley" | 1830 | Blackwood's Magazine | Review of The Life of Richard Bentley, by James Henry Monk. |
| "Life of Richard Bentley" | 1830 | Blackwood's Magazine | Part two. |
| "Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries" | 1831 | Blackwood's Magazine | On the Rev. Samuel Parr. |
| "Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries. No. II" | 1831 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries. No. III" | 1831 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries. No. IV" | 1831 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Cæsars" | 1832 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Cæsars. Augustus" | 1832 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Cæsars. Caligula, Claudius, and Nero" | 1833 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "The Revolution of Greece" | 1833 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Milton" | 1833 | The Gallery of Portraits | |
| "Mrs. Hannah More" | 1833 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Animal Magnetism" | 1834 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | 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). |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1834 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1834 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1834 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1834 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1834 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Travelling in England Thirty Years Ago: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1834 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" | 1834 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" | 1834 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Partially reprinted as "Mary of Buttermere" in Hogg's Instructor.[11] |
| "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" | 1834 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "The Cæsars. The Patriot Emperors" | 1834 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "The Cæsars" | 1834 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "The Cæsars" | 1834 | Blackwood's Magazine | Conclusion. |
| "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" | 1835 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1835 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1835 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1835 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "A Tory's Account of Toryism, Whiggism and Radicalism" | 1835 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | De Quincey anomalous position as a Tory contributor to the liberal Tait's Edinburgh Magazine has drawn puzzled comment from several of his critics.[12] |
| "A Tory's Account of Toryism, Whiggism and Radicalism" | 1836 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1836 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Literary Connexions or Acquaintances" | 1837 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Literary Connexions or Acquaintances" | 1837 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | An angry letter from the Rev. William Shepherd in reference to De Quincey's remarks is dealt with by the Editor, William Tait.[13] |
| "Revolt of the Tartars" | 1837 | Blackwood's Magazine | 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").
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| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1838 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Recollections of Charles Lamb" | 1838 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Recollections of Charles Lamb. No. II" | 1838 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Recollections of Charles Lamb" | 1838 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Originally publlslied in Tait's Magazine for September 1838 as an article in the series of De Quincey's Autobiography of an English Opium-eater sketches and later renamed as "Walladmor, A Pseudo-Waverley Novel".[14] 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. |
| "A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Literature in its Foremost Pretensions" | 1838 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "The English Language" | 1839 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "On Hume's Argument Against Miracles" | 1839 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Casuistry" | 1839 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "On the True Relations to Civilisation and Barbarism of the Roman Western Empire" | 1839 | Blackwood's Magazine | 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.[15] |
| "Second Paper on Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts" | 1839 | Blackwood's Magazine | A long postscript was added in the author's edition of his collected works (1854). |
| "Milton" | 1839 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Dinner Real and Reputed" | 1839 | Blackwood's Magazine | Reprinted under the title "The Casuistry of Roman Meals."[16] |
| "Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830. No. I. William Wordsworth" | 1839 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830. William Wordsworth" | 1839 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830. No. III. William Wordsworth" | 1839 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Literature in its Foremost Pretensions. No. II. The Greek Orators" | 1839 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830. No. IV. William Wordsworth and Robert Southey" | 1839 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830. No. V. Southey, Wordsworth and Coleridge" | 1839 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Recollections of Grasmere" | 1839 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. The Saracen's Head" | 1839 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "On the Essenes" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Theory of Greek Tragedy" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine |
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| "Casuistry" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | Second paper. |
| "On the Essenes" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | Part two. |
| "War with China, and the Opium Question" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Modern Superstition" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "On the Essenes" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | Part three. |
| "The Opium Question and China" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "On the China and the Opium Question" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | Postscript. |
| "Style" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Style. No. II" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Style. No. III" | 1840 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Westmoreland and Dalesmen" | 1840 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1840 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1840 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1840 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1840 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1840 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Style. No. IV" | 1841 | Blackwood's Magazine | Concluding article. |
| "The Dourraunee Empire" | 1841 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Plato's Republic" | 1841 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Homer and the Homeridæ" | 1841 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Homer and the Homeridæ. Part II. The Iliad" | 1841 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Homer and the Homeridæ. Part III. Verdict on the Homeric Questions" | 1841 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" | 1841 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Philosophy of Herodotus" | 1842 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "The Pagan Oracles" | 1842 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Cicero" | 1842 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Modern Greece" | 1842 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Ricardo Made Easy; or, What is the Radical Difference between Ricardo and Adam Smith? With an Occasional Notice of Ricardo's Oversights" | 1842 | Blackwood's Magazine | De Quincey later expanded this series of articles, which William Blackwood published in 1844, in book form, under the title, The Logic of Political Economy.[17] |
| "Ricardo Made Easy; or, What is the Radical Difference between Ricardo and Adam Smith? With an Occasional Notice of Ricardo's Oversights" | 1842 | Blackwood's Magazine | Part two. |
| "Ricardo Made Easy; or, What is the Radical Difference between Ricardo and Adam Smith? With an Occasional Notice of Ricardo's Oversights" | 1842 | Blackwood's Magazine | Part three. |
| "Ceylon" | 1843 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Secession from the Church of Scotland" | 1844 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Greece Under the Romans" | 1844 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Coleridge and Opium-eating" | 1845 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Suspiria de Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater" | 1845 | Blackwood's Magazine | Introductory notice. |
| "Suspiria de Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater" | 1845 | Blackwood's Magazine | Part I. |
| "Suspiria de Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater. The Palimpsest" | 1845 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Suspiria de Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater" | 1845 | Blackwood's Magazine | Part II. |
| "On Wordsworth's Poetry" | 1845 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "On the Temperance Movement of Modern Times" | 1845 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Notes on Gilfillan's 'Gallery of Literary Portraits'" | 1845 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Review of George Gilfillan's A Gallery of Literary Portraits. |
| "Notes on Gilfillan's 'Gallery of Literary Portraits'" | 1845 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Notes on Gilfillan's 'Gallery of Literary Portraits'" | 1846 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "The Antigone of Sophocles as Represented on the Edinburgh Stage in December 1845" | 1846 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "The Antigone of Sophocles as Represented on the Edinburgh Stage in December 1845" | 1846 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Memoirs and Correspondance of the Marquess Wellesley" | 1846 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement" | 1846 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Notes on Gilfillan's 'Gallery of Literary Portraits'" | 1846 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement" | 1846 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Glance at the Works of Mackintosh" | 1846 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | On Sir James Mackintosh. |
| "System of the Heavens as Revealed by Lord Rosse's Telescopes" | 1846 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Notes on Walter Savage Landor" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Notes on Walter Savage Landor" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Orthographic Mutineers" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Joan of Arc" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Milton versus Southey and Landor" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "The Nautico-Military Nun of Spain" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "The Nautico-Military Nun of Spain" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "The Nautico-Military Nun of Spain" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Secret Societies" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Joan of Arc" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Second paper. |
| "Schlosser's Literary History of the Eighteenth Century" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | On the writings of Friedrich Christoph Schlosser. |
| "Secret Societies" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Part II. |
| "Conversation" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Schlosser's Literary History of the Eighteenth Century" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Second paper. |
| "Protestantism" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Protestantism" | 1847 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Sortilege on Behalf of the Glasgow Athenæum" | 1848 | The Glasgow Athenæum Album | |
| "Astrology" | 1848 | The Glasgow Athenæum Album | |
| "Protestantism" | 1848 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "Forster's Life of Goldsmith" | 1848 | The North British Review | Review of John Forster's The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith. |
| "Pope" | 1848 | The North British Review | |
| "Charles Lamb and his Friends" | 1848 | The North British Review | Review of Thomas Noon Talfourd's Final Memorials of Charles Lamb. |
| "The English Mail-coach, or the Glory of Motion" | 1849 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "The Vision of Sudden Death" | 1849 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Dream-Fugue" | 1849 | Blackwood's Magazine | |
| "Conversation" | 1850 | Hogg's Instructor | A second article with this title, afterwards annexed to the previous paper of 1847 in Tait's Magazine. |
| "The Sphinx's Riddle" | 1850 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "Logic" | 1850 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "Professor Wilson" | 1850 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "French and English Manners" | 1850 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "Presence of Mind: A Fragment" | 1850 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "On the Present Stage of the English Language" | 1851 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "A Sketch from Childhood" | 1851 | Hogg's Instructor | Afterwards incorporated in De Quincey's Autobiography. |
| "A Sketch from Childhood. No. II" | 1851 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "Lord Carlisle on Pope" | 1851 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | |
| "A Sketch from Childhood. No. III" | 1852 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "A Sketch from Childhood. No. IV" | 1852 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "A Sketch from Childhood. No. V" | 1852 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "A Sketch from Childhood. No. VI. Literature of Infancy" | 1852 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "A Sketch from Childhood. No. VII" | 1852 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "Sir William Hamilton, Bart" | 1852 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "California" | 1852 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "Sir William Hamilton, with a Glance at his Logical Reforms" | 1852 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "Sir William Hamilton, with a Glance at his Logical Reforms" | 1852 | Hogg's Instructor | Second paper. |
| "On the Supposed Scriptural Expression for Eternity" | 1853 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "Judas Iscariot" | 1853 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "Table-talk" | 1853 | Hogg's Instructor | |
| "On the Final Catastrophe of the Gold-digging Mania" | 1853 | Hogg's Instructor | Afterwards added to the article on California.
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| "How to Write English: Introductory Paper" | 1853 | Hogg's Instructor |
Translations
Title | Date | First publisher | Notes |
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| "The Happy Life of a Parish Priest in Sweden" | 1821 | London Magazine | From the original by Jean Paul.
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| "Last Will and Testament — The House of Weeping" | 1821 | London Magazine | From the original by Jean Paul. |
| "Mr. Schnackenberger; or, Two Masters for One Dog" | 1823 | London Magazine | Translation of tale by Friedrich August Schulze, who wrote under the pen name Friedrich Laun.[18] |
| "Mr. Schnackenberger; or, Two Masters for One Dog" | 1823 | London Magazine | Part two. |
| "The Dice" | 1823 | London Magazine | From the original german, by Friedrich August Schulze. |
| "The King of Hayti" | 1823 | London Magazine | From the original german, by Friedrich August Schulze.[19] |
| "Analects from John Paul Richter" | 1824 | London Magazine | From the original by Jean Paul. |
| "Dream upon the Universe" | 1824 | London Magazine | From the original by Jean Paul. |
| "Abstract on Swedenborgianism" | 1824 | London Magazine | Partial translation of Immanuel Kant's Dreams of a Spirit-seer (1766). |
| "Idea of a Universal History on a Cosmo-political Plan" | 1824 | London Magazine | From the original by Immanuel Kant. |
| "The Incognito; or, Count Fitz-Hum" | 1824 | Knight's Quarterly Magazine | From the original german, by Friedrich August Schulze. |
| "The Love-charm" | 1825 | Knight's Quarterly Magazine | From the original by Ludwig Tieck. |
| Walladmor | 1825 | Taylor and Hessey | Freely translated into German by Willibald Alexis, from the English of Sir Walter Scott, and then freely translated from the German into English by De Quincey. The novel appeared in two volumes. |
| "The Last Days of Kant" | 1827 | Blackwood's Magazine | De Quincey offers a selective translation of the personal memoirs of Kant by his last secretary and/or "amanuensis" Ehregott Andreas Christoph Wasianski (July 3, 1755 - April 17, 1831), Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann (August 16, 1767 - September 28, 1843), and others. |
| "Toilette of the Hebrew Lady, Exhibited in Six Scenes" | 1828 | Blackwood's Magazine | 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).
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| "Age of the Earth" | 1833 | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | A partial English translation of Kant's essay The Question, whether the Earth is Ageing, considered from the Physical Point of View (1754).[20] |
Collected works
Title | Date | First publisher | Notes |
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| De Quincey's Writings | 1851–9 | Ticknor, Reed & Fields | Edited by James Thomas Fields in 20 volumes. |
| Selections Grave and Gay; from Writings Published and Unpublished, by Thomas De Quincey | 1853–60 | James Hogg | The author's edition in 14 volumes. |
| The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey | 1896–7 | A. & C. Black | Edited by David Masson in 14 volumes. |
| Selected Writings of Thomas De Quincey | 1949 | The Modern Library | Selected and edited with an introduction by Philip van Doren Stern. |
| New Essays by De Quincey | 1966 | Princeton University Press | Edited by Stuart M. Tave. De Quincey's contributions to the Edinburgh Saturday Post and the Edinburgh Evening Post. |
| The Works of Thomas De Quincey | 2000–3 | Pickering and Chatto | Edited by Grevel Lindop in 21 volumes. The standard edition of Thomas De Quincey's works. |
Miscellania
Title | Date | First publisher | Notes |
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| Appendix | 1809 | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme | Postscript added to William Wordsworth's book Concerning the Relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal.[21] |
| "Dialogues of Three Templars on Political Economy" | 1824 | London Magazine | These Dialogues appeared in two successive numbers of the London Magazine, for April and May, 1824.
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| Klosterheim Or, the Masque | 1832 | William Blackwood | A novel in the tradition of Walter Scott's historical romances.
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| "Goethe, John Wolfgang Von" | 1835 | Adam and Charles Black | Article on Goethe contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica, 7th edition.[22]
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| "Pope, Alexander" | 1837 | Adam and Charles Black | Article on Pope contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica, 7th edition.
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| "The Household Wreck" | 1838 | Blackwood's Magazine | A tale that has been linked to Kafka's The Trial on several different grounds.[23] |
| "The Avenger" | 1838 | Blackwood's Magazine | A tale. |
| "Schiller, John Christopher Frederick Von" | 1838 | Adam and Charles Black | Article on Schiller contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica, 7th edition.
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| "Shakespeare" | 1838 | Adam and Charles Black | Article on Shakespeare contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica, 7th edition.
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| The Logic of Political Economy | 1844 | William Blackwood and Sons | Another edition, with additional papers, was issued in Boston in 1859. |
| A Diary of Thomas De Quincey, 1803 | 1927 | Noel Douglas | Edited by Horace A. Eaton. |
Notes
- 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.
- "To the Editor of the London Magazine," London Magazine, Vol. IV, 1821, pp. 584–6.
- "Confessions of an English Opium-eater. Appendix, London Magazine, Vol. VI, 1822, pp. 512–17.
- "To the Editor of the London Magazine," London Magazine, Vol. VIII, 1823, pp. 459–60.
- Paulin, Tom (2006). Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays. London: Routledge, p. 107.
- "To the Editor of the London Magazine," London Magazine, Vol. VIII, 1823, pp. 569–73.
- Lyon, Judson S. (1969). Thomas De Quincey. New York: Twayne, p. 131.
- Halliday, F.E. (1964). A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964. Baltimore: Penguin, p. 132.
- Lyon (1969), p. 118.
- "Mary of Buttermere," Hogg's Instructor, Vol. IX, 1852, pp. 215–6.
- Morrison, Robert (1998). "Red De Quincey," The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 131–136.
- "Mr. De Quincey, and the Literary Society of Liverpool in 1801", Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. IV, 1837, pp. 337–340.
- Bridgwater, Patrick (2010). The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 348.
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