The Animalcule
Nicholas Spice: Little Mr De Quincey, 18 May 2017
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
by Frances Wilson.
Bloomsbury, 397 pp., £25, April 2016,978 1 4088 3977 5 Show More
by Frances Wilson.
Bloomsbury, 397 pp., £25, April 2016,
“... of copy. He worked in conditions of creative chaos. Visiting him in his lodgings in 1823, Thomas Hood found him ‘quite at home in the midst of a German ocean of literature, in a storm, flooding all the floor, the table and the chairs – billows of books, tossing, tumbling, surging open’. His friend Matthew Hill recalled De Quincey turning up for ... ”