Thomas De Quincey
/ˌtɒməs də ˈkwɪnsi/
/ˌtɑːməs də ˈkwɪnsi/
- (1785-1859) an English writer who regularly took the drug opium and described its effects on him in his best-known book, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). He was a friend of the poets Wordsworth and Coleridge.
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