Robert Morrison is recognized as a world-class scholar of Romantic and Victorian literature. He is the editor of De Quincey's On Murder (Oxford) as well as a collection of critical essays on De Quincey (Routledge). Robert is currently a professor of literature at Queen's University in Ontario. He lives in Canada.
Morrison provides a compelling survey of De Quincey's work as a
biographer, satirist, economist, political commentator, translator,
linguist and classicist.--"Book of the Week"
The time was ripe for a new biography and Morrison has done his man
proud. This is an exceptionally well-balanced account.--"Book of
the Week"
In this lucid, deeply researched biography, Robert Morrison makes
plain that De Quincey wasn't just a recreational user, but truly a
slave to his habit.... excellent, detailed and often harrowing
biography.
Robert Morrison's biography is impressive, the first biography of
De Quincey in almost thirty years, and the first to use all his
published and unpublished works.
A book which is full of insight and careful reasoning... Morrison
does a superb job of literary detection going through a life of
lies, procrastination and deceit, and teasing out whatever truth
there is to be had.
A finely mapped study of an eccentric character best known for
writing a celebrated essay that, Morrison suggests, 'offers an
influential prototype for the figure of the bohemian who combines
drugs, intellectualism, unconventionality, and the city.
I knew that I was on to a good thing with this book before the page
numbers were even out of roman numerals... This was a lively life,
and this is a lively life.
Morrison writes... with a combination of perspicacity and generous
puzzlement... Thanks to Morrison... The life is clearer than it has
ever been.
Robert Morrison's biography is astute and revealing, quarrying new
sources.
This is the first biography of the writer in decades.... in fact I
can't imagine anybody ever needing to do the job again. Mr.
Morrison gives us an admirably lucid tour through the long, chaotic
shambles of De Quincey's life.
This isn't a debunking biography, just a properly skeptical one,
and it's clear that Morrison's enthusiasm for the man and his
writings does not obscure his judgment.
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