De Quincey, Thomas
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DE QUINCEY, THOMAS d kwin se, 1785 1859, English essayist. In 1802 he ran away...degree and settled (1809) at Grasmere, where he made the acquaintance of Wordsworth. By 1817 the opium habit, which he had begun while at Oxford, had reached...