Gallery of the German Prose Classics. By the English Opium-Eater

(With Notes and a Postscript)

First published in Blackwood’s Magazine, XX, January 1827, pp. 2–24. Reprinted in F, Essays on Philosophical Writers, and Other Men of Letters (i), 1854 and, with a few very small revisions, in SGG XIII, Speculations Literary and Philosophic (ii), 1859.

There is no known manuscript.

For a discussion of De Quincey’s Laocoön translation as a whole, see the headnote to the first instalment, pp. 26–7 above.