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Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber, The Limited
ISBN-100571254160
ISBN-139780571254163
eBay Product ID (ePID)171822975
Product Key Features
Book TitleOpium and the Romantic Imagination
Number of Pages396 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicCreative Ability, General, Modern / 19th Century
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Psychology, History
AuthorAlethea Hayter
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight17.2 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition18
Dewey Decimal809/.034
SynopsisDoes the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered. In this study Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of several other writers - notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs Browning, James Thomson and others - who are known to have taken opium at times. The work of these writers is discussed in the context of nineteenth-century opinion about the uses and dangers of opium, and of Romantic ideas on the creative imagination, on dreams and hypnagogic visions, and on imagery, so that the idiosyncrasies of opium-influenced writing can be isolated from their general literary background. The examination reveals a strange and miserable region of the mind in which some of the greatest poetic imaginations of the nineteenth century were imprisoned.
LC Classification NumberPN751.H3 2009
