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.
Essays 1820s 1819–20 "Danish Origin of the Lake-country Dialect". Westmorland Gazette. November 13, December 4 and 18, 1819, and January 8, 1820.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. 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)Review of Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs. "Death of a German Great Man" (April)On Johann Gottfried Herder. "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"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. "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)De Quincey's reply to Hazlitt's accusation. 1824 "Historico-critical Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and Free-masons" (January); (February); (March); "Appendix" (June)Digested from a German work on the subject by J.G. Buhle. "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)Skit upon the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin. 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)Review of Richard Whately's Elements of Rhetoric. 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)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). "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);Partially reprinted as "Mary of Buttermere," Hogg's Instructor, Vol. IX, 1852, pp. 215–6. (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)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. 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)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. Blackwood's Magazine "Revolt of the Tartars" (July)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"). 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)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. "A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Literature in its Foremost Pretensions" (December) 1839 Blackwood's Magazine "The English Language" (April) "On Hume's Argument Against Miracles" (July) "Casuistry" (October) "On the True Relations to Civilisation and Barbarism of the Roman Western Empire" (November)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. "Second Paper on Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts" (November)A long Postscript was added in the author's edition of his collected works (Selections Grave & Gay, v. IV, 1:854). "Milton" (December) "Dinner Real and Reputed" (December)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. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine "Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830". "No. I–III. William Wordsworth" (January); (February); (April) "A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Literature in its Foremost Pretensions. No. II. The Greek Orators" (June) "Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830". "No. IV. William Wordsworth and Robert Southey" (July); "No. V. Southey, Wordsworth and Coleridge" (August); "Recollections of Grasmere" (September); "The Saracen's Head" (December)
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)Robertson, William Bell (1905). Political Economy: Expositions of Its Fundamental Doctrines. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., p. xix. 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