Robert Morrison’s biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected essayist, critic and biographer. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Burroughs and Peter Ackroyd.ĭe Quincey is a fascinating (and topical) figure for other reasons too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. The information which Linus gives about the writers life in the song is correct, whereas the information. In the song, the children hope that their teacher will not call on them to ask them questions about the famous American poet, novelist and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe. De Quincey also stands at the meeting point in the culture wars between Edinburgh and London between high art and popular taste and between the devotees of the Romantic imagination and those of hack journalism. 'Edgar Allan Poe' is a song from the stage show Snoopy The Musical and the animated TV special of the same name.
Thomas De Quincey’s friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods – including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle – have long placed him at the centre of 19th-century literary studies. Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.
