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's oeuvre includes literary criticism, poetry, and a large selection of reviews, translations and journalism. His private correspondence and diary have also been published.

1820s

1819–20

"Danish Origin of the Lake-country Dialect". Westmorland Gazette. November 13, December 4 and 18, 1819, and January 8, 1820.^[1]^[2]

London Magazine

1821

"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar". (September); "Part II" (October)

"To the Editor of the London Magazine" (December)

"John Paul Frederick Richter" (December)

1822

"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". "Appendix" (December)

1823

"Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected." (January); "No. II" (February); "No. III. On Languages" (March)

"Anecdotage" (March)^[3]

"Death of a German Great Man" (April)^[4]

"Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected". "No. IV. On Language" (May); "No. V. On the English Notices of Kant" (July)

"Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. I" (September)

"Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. II" (October)

"Malthus"^[5]

"On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth"

"Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. III. English Dictionaries" (November)

"Measure of Value" (December)

"To the Editor of the London Magazine" (December)^[6]

1824

"Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and Free-masons" (January); (February); (March); "Appendix" (June)^[7]

"The Services of Mr. Ricardo to the Science of Political Economy" (March)

"Kant on National Character in Relation to the Sense of the Sublime and Beautiful" (April)

"Education. Plans for the Instruction of Boys in Large Numbers" (April); (May)

"Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. IV" (June)

"False Distinctions"

"Madness"

"Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. V" (July)

"Superficial Knowledge"

"Notes from the Pocket-book of a Late Opium-eater. No. VI" (December)

"Falsification of the History of England"

"Falsification of English History by Hume"

"Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" (August); (September)

"Walladmor, Sir Walter Scott's German Novel"

1825

"The Street Companion: or the Young Man's Guide and the Old Man's Comfort in the Choice of Shoes" (January)^[8]

Blackwood's Magazine

1826

"Gallery of the German Prose Classics", No. I.—Lessing (November)

1827

"Gallery of the German Prose Classics". "No. II.—Lessing" (January); "No. III.—Kant" (February)

"On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts" (February)

1828

"Elements of Rhetoric" (December)^[9]

Edinburgh Literary Gazette

1829

"Sketch of Professor Wilson, Parts I–III" (June 6 & 20, July 11)

1830s

Blackwood's Magazine

1830

"Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays" (August)

"Life of Richard Bentley" (September); (October)

1831

"Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries" (January), (February); (May); (June)

1832

"Cæsars", (October); II. Augustus (December)

1833

Blackwood's Magazine

"Cæsars. Chapter III. Caligula, Claudius, and Nero" (January)

"The Revolution of Greece" (April)

The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs, Volume 1

"Milton"

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Mrs. Hannah More" (December)

1834

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Animal Magnetism" (January)^[10]

"Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" (February); (March); (April); "The Irish Rebellion" (May); (August)

"Travelling in England Thirty Years Ago: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" (December)

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge" (September); (October);^[11] (November)

Blackwood's Magazine

"The Cæsars". "IV. The Patriot Emperors" (June); (July); "Conclusion" (August)

1835

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge" (January)

"Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater, Oxford" (February); (June); (August)

"A Tory's Account of Toryism, Whiggism and Radicalism" (December)^[12]

1836

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"A Tory's Account of Toryism, Whiggism and Radicalism" (January)

"Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" (June)

1837

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Literary Connexions or Acquaintances" (February); (March)^[13]

Blackwood's Magazine

"Revolt of the Tartars" (July)^[14]

1838

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" (March)

"Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. Recollections of Charles Lamb" (April); (June); (September)^[15]

"A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Literature in its Foremost Pretensions" (December)

1839

1840s

1840

Blackwood's Magazine

"On the Essenes" (January)

"Theory of Greek Tragedy" (February)

"Casuistry" (part 2) (February)

"War with China, and the Opium Question" (March)

"On the Essenes, Part II" (April)

"Modern Superstition" (April)

"On the Essenes, Part III" (May)

"The Opium and the China Question" (June)

"Postscript On The China and the Opium Question" (June)

"Style" (July); No. II (September); No. III (October)

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater".

Westmoreland and Dalesmen (January); (March); (June); (August); (October); (December)

1841

Blackwood's Magazine

"Style. No. IV" (February)

"The Dourraunee Empire" (March)

"Plato's Republic" (July)

"Homer and the Homeridæ" (October); Part II. The Iliad (November); Part III. Verdict on the Homeric Questions (December)

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Sketches of Life and Manners: from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater" (February)

1842

Blackwood's Magazine

"Philosophy of Herodotus" (January)

"The Pagan Oracles" (March)

"Cicero" (July)

"Modern Greece" (July)

"Ricardo Made Easy; or, What is the Radical Difference between Ricardo and Adam Smith? With an Occasional Notice of Ricardo's Oversights" (September); (October); (December)^[19]

1843

Blackwood's Magazine

"Ceylon" (November)

1844

Blackwood's Magazine

"Secession from the Church of Scotland" (February)

"Greece Under the Romans" (October)

1845

Blackwood's Magazine

"Coleridge and Opium-eating" (January)

"Suspiria de Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater" (March)

Introductory Notice (March)

Part I (April)

Part I. Concluded. The Palimpsest" (June)

Part II (July)

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"On Wordsworth's Poetry" (September)

"On the Temperance Movement of Modern Times" (October)

"Notes on Gilfillan's 'Gallery of Literary Portraits'". Godwin & Foster. (November); Hazlitt & Shelley. (December)

1846

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Notes on Gilfillan's 'Gallery of Literary Portraits'. Shelley." (January)

"The Antigone of Sophocles as Represented on the Edinburgh Stage in December 1845" (February); (March)

"Memoirs and Correspondance of the Marquess Wellesley" (March)

"On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement" (April)

"Notes on Gilfillan's 'Gallery of Literary Portraits'. Keats." (April)

"On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement" (June)

"Glance at the Works of Mackintosh" (July)

"System of the Heavens as Revealed by Lord Rosse's Telescopes" (September)

1847

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Notes on Walter Savage Landor". (January); (February)

"Orthographic Mutineers" (March)

"Joan of Arc: In Reference to M. Michelet's History of France" (March)

"Milton versus Southey and Landor" (April)

"The Nautico-Military Nun of Spain". (May); (June); (July)

"Secret Societies" (August)

"Joan of Arc" (August)

"Schlosser's Literary History of the Eighteenth Century" (September)

"Secret Societies. Part II." (October)

"Conversation" (October)

"Schlosser's Literary History of the Eighteenth Century" (October)

"Protestantism". (November); (December)

1848

The Glasgow Athenæum Album

"Sortilege on Behalf of the Glasgow Athenæum"

"Astrology"

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Protestantism" (February)

The North British Review

"Forster's Life of Goldsmith" (May)

"Pope" (August)

"Charles Lamb and his Friends" (November)

1849

Blackwood's Magazine

"The English Mail-coach, or the Glory of Motion" (October)

"The Vision of Sudden Death/Dream-Fugue" (December)

1850s

1850

Hogg's Weekly Instructor

"Conversation"

"The Sphinx's Riddle"

"Logic"

"Professor Wilson"

"French and English Manners"

"Presence of Mind: A Fragment"

1851

Hogg's Weekly Instructor

"On the Present Stage of the English Language"

"A Sketch from Childhood"

"A Sketch from Childhood. No. II"

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

"Lord Carlisle on Pope" (April, May, June)

1852

Hogg's Weekly Instructor

"A Sketch from Childhood"

Nos. III, IV, V, VI. Literature of Infancy, VII.

"Sir William Hamilton, Bart"

"California"

"Sir William Hamilton, with a Glance at his Logical Reforms"; Second Paper

1853

Hogg's Weekly Instructor

"On the Supposed Scriptural Expression for Eternity"

"Judas Iscariot"

"Table-talk"

"On the Final Catastrophe of the Gold-digging Mania"

"How to Write English: Introductory Paper"

Fiction

Novel

Klosterheim Or, the Masque. William Blackwood, 1832.^[20]

Stories

"Dialogues of Three Templars on Political Economy". London Magazine. April & May, 1824. ^[21]
"The Household Wreck". Blackwood's Magazine, 1838.^[22]
"The Avenger". Blackwood's Magazine, 1838.

Academic

"Appendix" in Concerning the Relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal. William Wordsworth. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.^[23]
Encyclopædia Britannica, 7th edition. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1842.^[24]

"Goethe, John Wolfgang Von" (Volume 10)

"Pope, Alexander" (Volume 18)

"Schiller, John Christopher Frederick Von" (Volume 19)

"Shakespeare" (Volume 20)

German translations

Title	Date	First publisher	Author
"The Happy Life of a Parish Priest in Sweden"	1821	London Magazine	Jean Paul^[25]
"Last Will and Testament — The House of Weeping"	1821	London Magazine	Jean Paul.
"The Devil's Ladder"	1822	London Magazine	Aloise Schreiber^[26]
"Mr. Schnackenberger; or, Two Masters for One Dog"	1823	London Magazine	Friedrich Laun^[27]
"Mr. Schnackenberger; or, Two Masters for One Dog"	1823	London Magazine	Friedrich Laun
"The Fatal Marksman"	1823	Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations	Johann August Apel^[28]
"The Dice"	1823	London Magazine	Friedrich Laun
"The King of Hayti"	1823	London Magazine	Friedrich Laun^[29]
"The Raven: A Greek Tale"	1823	Knight's Quarterly Magazine	Johann August Apel^[30]^[31]^[32]
"The Black Chamber"	1823	Knight's Quarterly Magazine	Johann August Apel^[31]^[32]
"Analects from John Paul Richter"	1824	London Magazine	Jean Paul
"Dream upon the Universe"	1824	London Magazine	Jean Paul
"Abstract on Swedenborgianism"	1824	London Magazine	Immanuel Kant^[33]
"Idea of a Universal History on a Cosmo-political Plan"	1824	London Magazine	Immanuel Kant
"The Incognito; or, Count Fitz-Hum"	1824	Knight's Quarterly Magazine	Friedrich Laun^[31]^[32]
"The Somnambulist"	1824	Knight's Quarterly Magazine	Friedrich Laun^[31]^[32]
"The Love-Charm"	1825	Knight's Quarterly Magazine	Ludwig Tieck^[34]
Walladmor, vol. I & II	1825	Taylor and Hessey	Willibald Alexis^[35]
"The Last Days of Kant"	1827	Blackwood's Magazine	E.A.C. Wasianski^[36]
"Toilette of the Hebrew Lady, Exhibited in Six Scenes"	1828	Blackwood's Magazine	Anton Theodor Hartmann^[37]
"Age of the Earth"	1833	Tait's Edinburgh Magazine	Immanuel Kant^[38]

Collected works

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.
↑ Review of Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs.
↑ On Johann Gottfried Herder.
↑ William Hazlitt suggested that De Quincey might have plagiarized his refutation of Malthus: "To the Editor of the London Magazine," London Magazine, Vol. VIII, 1823, pp. 459–60. See also: Paulin, Tom (2006). Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays. London: Routledge, p. 107.
↑ De Quincey's reply to Hazlitt's accusation.
↑ Digested from a German work on the subject by J.G. Buhle.
↑ Skit upon the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
↑ Review of Richard Whately's Elements of Rhetoric.
↑ 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).
↑ Partially reprinted as "Mary of Buttermere," Hogg's Instructor, Vol. IX, 1852, pp. 215–6.
↑ De Quincey anomalous position as a Tory contributor to the liberal Tait's Edinburgh Magazine has drawn puzzled comment from several of his critics. See: Morrison, Robert (1998). "Red De Quincey," The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 131–136.
↑ An angry letter from the Rev. William Shepherd in reference to De Quincey's remarks is dealt with by the Editor, William Tait. See: "Mr. De Quincey, and the Literary Society of Liverpool in 1801", Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. IV, 1837, pp. 337–340.
↑ 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").
↑ 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.
↑ 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. See:The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 6. London: A. & C. Black, 1896, pp. 429–447.
↑ A long Postscript was added in the author's edition of his collected works (Selections Grave & Gay, v. IV, 1:854).
↑ Reprinted under the title "The Casuistry of Roman Meals." See: The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 7. London: A. & C. Black, 1897, pp. 11–43.
↑ Robertson, William Bell (1905). Political Economy: Expositions of Its Fundamental Doctrines. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., p. xix.
↑ Pirated: Klosterheim Or, the Masque. Boston: Whittemore, Niles and Hall, 1855 (with a biographical preface by Shelton Mackenzie). Reprinted: Klosterheim Or, the Masque. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Woodbridge Press, 1982 (with an introduction by John Weeks). See: De Quincey, Thomas. Articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and The Gallery of Portraits; Klosterheim: or, The Masque; 1831–2, edited by Robert Morrison. Vol. 8 of The Works of Thomas De Quincey, ed. Grevel Lindop. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001. 223.
↑ Reprinted: David Ricardo: Critical Responses, Vol. 2. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
↑ Often linked to Kafka's The Trial. See: Bridgwater, Patrick (2004). De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 148.
↑ Wise, Thomas J. (1916). A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, p. 75.
↑ Bateson, F.W. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press, 1969. 649.
↑ Reprinted: The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864.
↑ The attribution to De Quincey is only circumstantial. Burwick, Frederick, ed. (2000). The Works of Thomas De Quincey. Vol. 3. London: Pickering & Chatto. pp. 411–412. ISBN 1851960546.
↑ Morrison, Robert (2009). The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
↑ Published anonymously.
↑ Burwick, Frederick (2013). "De Quincey and the King of Hayti," The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 44, No. 2/3, p. 83.
↑ "Der Rabe: Griechisches Märchen". Gespensterbuch. Vol. 2. Leipzig: G. J. Göschen. 1811. pp. 318–322. ISBN 978-3-628-36571-3. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
1 2 3 4 Morrison, Robert (2010). "Chapter 9: En Route". The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey. New York: Pegasus Books. pp. 227–228, 238. ISBN 9781605982809.
1 2 3 4 Gray, G. J. (1 October 1881). "Knight's Quarterly Magazine". Notes and Queries. 4 (92): 261.
↑ Partial translation of Dreams of a Spirit-seer (1766).
↑ Attributed to De Quincey in James Hogg's The Uncollected Writings of Thomas De Quincey (1890), and David Masson's The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey (1897). More likely to have been translated by Julius Hare.Galinsky, Hans K. (1937). "Is Thomas De Quincey the Author of The Love-Charm?". Modern Language Notes. 52 (6). Johns Hopkins University Press: 389–394. doi:10.2307/2911709. ISSN 0149-6611. JSTOR 2911709.
↑ De Quincey, Thomas. Articles and translations from the London Magazine; Walladmor; 1824–1825. F. Burwick (Ed.). The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 4. G. Lindop (Ed.) Pickering & Chatto, 2000. 262f.
↑ Selective translation of Immanuel Kant in seinen letzten Lebensjahren. Ein Beytrag zur Kenntniss seines Charakters und häuslichen Lebens aus dem täglichen Umgange mit ihn Königsberg: Nicolovius, 1804. See: Goldman, Arnold. The Mine and the Mint: Sources for the Writings of Thomas De Quincey Southern Illinois University Press, 1965. 68–75.
↑
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). Reprinted:
- Toilette of the Hebrew Lady, Exhibited in Six Scenes. Hartford, Conn.: E.V. Mitchell, 1926.
↑ A partial English translation of Kant's essay The Question, whether the Earth is Ageing, considered from the Physical Point of View (1754). See: Watkins, Eric (2002). Immanuel Kant: Natural Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 165.
↑ Green, John Albert. Thomas De Quincey: A Bibliography Based upon the de Quincey collection in the Moss Side Library. Manchester-Public Free Library, 1908. 24–7.

Thomas De Quincey bibliography

1820s

1830s

1840s

1850s

Fiction

Novel

Stories

Academic

German translations

Collected works

De Quincey's Writings

Selections Grave and Gay

The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey

The Works of Thomas De Quincey

Selections

Notes

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