Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. `On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth` offers both a small masterpiece of Shakespearian interpretation and a provocative statement of De Quincey`s personal aesthetic of contrast and counterpoint. Suspiria de Profundis b...