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Michael Neve, 3 September 1981
The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas de Quincey
by Grevel Lindop.
Dent, 433 pp., £12, July 1981,0 460 04358 7 Show More
by Grevel Lindop.
Dent, 433 pp., £12, July 1981,
“... opium routinely, to sedate themselves and their children. For the more exotic figure of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, addiction started while he was at the great university standing on the edge of the sad East Anglian plain. The Trojan horse in Coleridge’s case was his teeth, which ached relentlessly. A certain sympathy must extend to him, since dentistry was ... ”