ABSTRACT
Extracts from ‘Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater’, Tait’s Magazine (February 1837), new series IV, pp. 71–3, by Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), essayist, critic, and author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822). Text here from ‘A Liverpool Coterie’, The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey. New and Enlarged Edition, ed. David Masson (Edinburgh, 1899), II, pp. 130–7.
