"Four PP"" (1530s), the Pardoner, a Renaissance update of Chaucer's Pardoner, offers his companions the opportunity to kiss ""a slipper / Of one of the Seven Sleepers,"" but the relic is presented as absurdly as the Pardoner's other offerings, which include ""the great-toe of the Trinity"" and ""a buttock-bone of Pentecost."" Little is heard of the Seven Sleepers during the Enlightenment, but the account revived with the coming of Romanticism. The ""Golden Legend"" may have been the source for retellings of the Seven Sleepers in Thomas de Quincey's ""Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"", in a poem by Goethe, Washington Irving's"
"term of opprobrium, held reactionary views on the Peterloo Massacre and the Sepoy rebellion, on Catholic Emancipation and the enfranchisement of the common people, and yet was also a staunch abolitionist on the issue of slavery. In 1821 he went to London to dispose of some translations from German authors, but was persuaded first to write and publish an account of his opium experiences, which that year appeared in the ""London Magazine"". This new sensation eclipsed Lamb's ""Essays of Elia"", which were then appearing in the same periodical. The ""Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"" were soon published in book form."
"an English essayist, best known for his ""Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"" (1821), an autobiographical account of his laudanum use and its effect on his life. William Hazlitt (1778–1830), friend of both Coleridge and Wordsworth, is another important essayist at this time, though today he is best known for his literary criticism, especially ""Characters of Shakespeare's Plays"" (1817–18). The second generation of Romantic poets includes Lord Byron (1788–1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) and John Keats (1795–1821). Byron, however, was still influenced by 18th-century satirists and was, perhaps the least 'romantic' of the three, preferring ""the brilliant wit of Pope to"
"His ""Confessions of an English Opium Eater"" was based on his experiences as an opium addict, and describes him relaxing at the cottage with a quart of laudanum. He upset the Wordsworth family by making alterations to Dove Cottage and more importantly, its garden. The increasing size of his family forced him to move to Fox Ghyll, but he continued to rent Dove Cottage, and store books there, until 1835. Debts eventually forced him to leave the cottage for good. Dove Cottage then had a succession of tenants, becoming known as Dixon's Lodging. In the late 1880s, the cottage was"
"(1898). To ""The Poems of Ernest Dowson"" (1905) he prefixed an essay on the deceased poet, who was a kind of English Verlaine and had many attractions for Symons. In 1909 Symons suffered a psychotic breakdown, and published very little new work for a period of more than twenty years. His ""Confessions: A Study in Pathology"" (1930) has a moving description of his breakdown and treatment. In 1918, ""Vanity Fair"" magazine published Symons' Baudelarian essay, ""The Gateway to an Artificial Paradise: The Effects of Hashish and Opium Compared."" On one occasion between 1889 and 1895, John Addington Symonds, Ernest Dowson,"
"Lionel Johnson Lionel Pigot Johnson (15 March 1867 – 4 October 1902) was an English poet, essayist, and critic. Johnson was born in Broadstairs, Kent, United Kingdom in 1867 and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating in 1890. He became a Catholic convert in June 1891. In 1893 he published what some would consider his greatest work, ""Dark Angel"". Johnson lived a solitary life in London, struggling with alcoholism and repressed homosexuality. He died of a stroke in 1902, after a fall in the street, though it was said to be a fall from a barstool in"
"Havelock Ellis Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939), was an English physician, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-authored the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. Ellis was among the pioneering investigators of psychedelic drugs and the author of one of the first written reports to the public about an experience"
"Olive Moore Constance Edith Vaughan (September 1904 – ca. 1970), better known by her pseudonym Olive Moore, was a modernist English writer best known for three well-esteemed novels: ""Celestial Seraglio"" (1929), ""Spleen"" (1930), and ""Fugue"" (1932), and for the acerbic essay collection ""The Apple Is Bitten Again"" (1934). She also produced an essay on D.H. Lawrence, entitled ""Further Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine"", which was privately printed in 1933 and included in her essay collection. Her ""Collected Writings"" was published in 1992. Born in Hereford, Moore was acquainted with the Bloomsbury literary circles in London during her prolific"
"friendship, confusing Forster with constant avowals of his love. LGBT E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including ""A Room with a View"" (1908), ""Howards End"" (1910) and ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists."
"Coleridge and opium Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772–25 July 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who consumed opium to address his health issues. His use of opium in his home country of England, as well as Sicily and Malta, is extensively documented. Coleridge's opium use led to serious consequences. Coupled with his health conditions, Coleridge's opium addiction was harmful towards life and adversely impacted his career. Coleridge was widely known to have been a regular user of opium as a relaxant, analgesic, antidepressant, and treatment for numerous health concerns. ""Kubla Khan"" was apparently written under the drug's"
"for later works, the ""Confessio"" is nonetheless significant in its own right as one of the earliest poems written in a form of English that is clearly recognizable as a direct precursor to the modern standard, and, above all, as one of the handful of works that established the foundations of literary prestige on which modern English literature is built. Confessio Amantis Confessio Amantis (""The Lover's Confession"") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative"
"the experience in ""The Contemporary Review"" in 1898 (""Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise""). The title of the article alludes to an earlier work on the effects of mind-altering substances, an 1860 book ""Les Paradis artificiels"" by French poet Charles Baudelaire (containing descriptions of experiments with opium and hashish). Ellis was so impressed with the aesthetic quality of the experience that he gave some specimens of peyote to an Irish poet W. B. Yeats, a member of Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an organisation of which another mescaline researcher, Aleister Crowley, was also a member. Ellis resigned from his position"
"to free expression and inquiry, a range and depth of intellect, and a willingness to pursue the truth without regard to personal or professional consequence"". Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, and religious, literary, and social critic. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays on culture, politics and literature. A staple of public discourse, his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded intellectual and a controversial public figure. He contributed to ""New Statesman"", ""The"
"month and a half in London, then left for Geneva, Switzerland when his health again took a downturn. He died the morning after his thirty-fourth birthday, and, perhaps as he meant to predict in this passage in ""What Shall They Do to Be Saved?"": “Over the opium-eater’s coffin at least, thank God! a wife and a sister can stop weeping and say, ‘He’s free.’” Fitz Hugh Ludlow Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow (September 11, 1836 – September 12, 1870), was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best known for his autobiographical book ""The Hasheesh Eater"" (1857). Ludlow"
"whoever reads will find himself unable to deny that time has vindicated them all splendidly."" Finally, Moore wrote insightful literary criticism of major authors of the 19th century the general sentiment of which concurred with the following generation of Modernists in the early 20th century. Confessions of a Young Man The Confessions of a Young Man (1886 in French; 1888 in English) is a memoir by Irish novelist George Moore who spent about 15 years in his teens and 20s in Paris and later London as a struggling artist. The book is notable as being one of the first English"
"Gallery, London. Logan Pearsall Smith Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines. His ""Words and Idioms"" made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, ""Unforgotten Years"", in 1938. Smith was born in Millville, New Jersey. He was the son of the prominent Quakers Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, and a descendant of James Logan, who was William Penn's secretary and the Chief Justice"
"an English Opium-Eater"", but Bankim Chandra goes much beyond with his deft handling of sarcastic, political messages that Kamalakanta delivers. Chattopadhyay's commentary on the Gita was published eight years after his death and contained his comments up to the 19th Verse of Chapter 4. Through this work, he attempted to reassure Hindus who were increasingly being exposed to Western ideas. His belief was, that there was ""No serious hope of progress in India except in Hinduism-reformed, regenerated and purified"". He wrote an extensive commentary on two verses in particular – 2.12 and 2.13 – which deal with the immortality of"
"by many of the period’s most important writers and thinkers. Despite Gillman’s care, however, Coleridge was overcome with respiratory problems and enlargement of the heart. Coleridge died at the age of 61. Coleridge and opium Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772–25 July 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who consumed opium to address his health issues. His use of opium in his home country of England, as well as Sicily and Malta, is extensively documented. Coleridge's opium use led to serious consequences. Coupled with his health conditions, Coleridge's opium addiction was harmful towards life and adversely impacted his"
"also was impressed that Kean delivered his lines as if thinking of them for the first time. Memoirs of an Egotist Souvenirs d’égotisme (French for Memoirs of an Egotist) is an autobiographical work by Stendhal. It was written in 13 days in June and July 1832 while the author was staying in Civitavecchia. Stendhal recounts his life in Paris and London from 1821 to 1830. It includes candid and spirited descriptions of contemporaries such as Lafayette, Madame Pasta, Destutt de Tracy, Mérimée, and Charles de Rémusat. The story remained unfinished and was not published until 1892 by Casimir Stryienski. Stendhal"
"Logan Pearsall Smith Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines. His ""Words and Idioms"" made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, ""Unforgotten Years"", in 1938. Smith was born in Millville, New Jersey. He was the son of the prominent Quakers Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, and a descendant of James Logan, who was William Penn's secretary and the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania"
"days, his constitution was so much injured by inebriety, that he generally wrote with a bottle of brandy by his elbow, which at length terminated his career June 10, 1779, less lamented than perhaps any person known in the literary world, yet possessed of talents which, under a steady and virtuous direction, might have procured him an honourable place among the authors of his time."" Indeed, Kenrick wrote revealingly of himself that he drank spirits (aqua vitae), to pen acid (aqua fortis): <poem> William Kenrick (writer) William Kenrick (c. 1725 – 10 June 1779) was an English novelist, playwright, translator"
"The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858) is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The essays were originally published in ""The Atlantic Monthly"" in 1857 and 1858 before being collected in book form. The author had written two essays with the same name which were published in the earlier ""The New-England Magazine"" in November 1831 and February 1832, which are alluded to in a mention of an ""interruption"" at the start of the very first essay. The essays take the form of a chiefly one-sided dialogue between the unnamed Author and the"
"T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and ""one of the twentieth century's major poets"". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American passport. Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" (1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the"
"Confessions of a Book Reviewer ""Confessions of a Book Reviewer"" is a narrative essay published in 1946 by the English author George Orwell. In it, he discusses the lifestyle of a book reviewer and criticises the practice of reviewing almost every book published, which gives rise to this lifestyle. Orwell started writing book reviews for ""Adelphi"" in 1930, and other publications for which he wrote reviews included ""New English Weekly"", ""Horizon"", ""New Statesman"" and ""Tribune"". In 1940 he reviewed over 100 books. From 1945 to 1946 Orwell had kept up a high level of work, producing some 130 literary contributions."
"Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, and religious, literary, and social critic. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays on culture, politics and literature. A staple of public discourse, his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded intellectual and a controversial public figure. He contributed to ""New Statesman"", ""The Nation"", ""The Weekly Standard"", ""The Atlantic"", ""London Review of Books"", ""The Times Literary Supplement"", ""Slate"", ""Free Inquiry"" and ""Vanity Fair"". Having long described himself as"
"the proletariat' or with any sympathy for a communist one. ...before claiming the book as proletarian literature ""you have to separate off the author (in the phrase that Radek used) as a man ripe for fascism"". From ""The Variants for the Byzantium Poems"" in ""Using Biography"": From """"Ulysses"": Joyce's Intentions"" in ""Using Biography"": William Empson Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, ""Seven Types of Ambiguity"", published in"
"of an English Opium-Eater"" (1821), Essayist William Hazlitt (1778–1830), friend of both Coleridge and Wordsworth, is best known today for his literary criticism, especially ""Characters of Shakespeare's Plays"" (1817–18). The second generation of Romantic poets includes Lord Byron (1788–1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) and John Keats (1795–1821). Byron, however, was still influenced by 18th-century satirists and was, perhaps the least 'romantic' of the three, preferring ""the brilliant wit of Pope to what he called the 'wrong poetical system' of his Romantic contemporaries"". Byron achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe and Goethe called Byron ""undoubtedly the greatest genius of our"
"""The Waste Land,"") and James Joyce. Below are a partial list of honours and awards received by T.S. Eliot or bestowed or created in his honour. These honours are displayed in order of precedence based on Eliot's nationality and rules of protocol, not awarding date. Source: T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and ""one of the twentieth century's major poets"". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age"
"C. L. Edson Charles Leroy ""C. L."" Edson (September 6, 1881 – December 4, 1975), was an American newspaper columnist, humorist, and poet whose work appeared in New York papers in the first decades of the 20th century. He wrote a guide to writing newspaper humor, ""The Gentle Art of Columning: A Treatise on Comic Journalism"" (1920), and an autobiography, ""The Great American Ass"" (1926). Edson also wrote for several national publications. Edson’s career suffered after he published his autobiography, which included an extensive personal attack on Franklin P. Adams, a New York colleague. In 1935 he joined the Federal"
"Chuck Klosterman Charles John Klosterman is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for ""Esquire"" and ESPN.com and wrote ""The Ethicist"" column for ""The New York Times Magazine"". Klosterman is the author of ten books, including two novels and the essay collection ""Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto"". He was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for music criticism in 2002. Klosterman was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, the youngest of seven children of Florence and William Klosterman. He is of German and Polish descent. He grew up"
"The Orb. Brian Barritt Brian Sydney Barritt (1934–2011) was an English author, artist, and counterculture figure. He served in the British army, and was a friend and collaborator to such notables as Timothy Leary, William Burroughs, and Alex Trocchi. He was particularly active in the Beatnik, psychedelic, and Krautrock scenes. Barritt was the author of several books, including ""Whisper"", ""The Road of Excess: A Psychedelic Autobiography"" and ""The Nabob of Bombasta"". He also collaborated with Timothy Leary on his book, ""Confessions of a Hope Fiend"". Barritt first made contact with Leary when Leary was on the run after his escape"
"E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin ""E. E."" Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. Cummings is associated with modernist free-form poetry. Much of his work has original syntax and uses lower case spellings for poetic expression. His use of lower case extended to rendering even the personal pronoun ""I"" as ""i"", as in the phrase ""i shall go"". Cummings was politically"
"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the ""Breakfast-Table"" series, which began with ""The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table"" (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to his work as an author and poet, Holmes also served as a physician, professor, lecturer and inventor and, although he never practiced it, he received"