Item Type: JAS Known Contents
Creator: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Issued: 1850
Edition: Not listed
Language: English
Author of this Entry: Shelby York
EVIDENCE SET
Evidence Type: Letter
Volume: Page (Letter): 1:410 (276)
Date: August 1, 1863
Addressed To?: Dr. John Addington Symonds
Importance?: Uses a term that De Quincey coined
Owned?: Possibly
Evidence: "If I were to select any portion of your writing for special praise it w. be its oratical power, the length and grace of your sentences, your habit of eddying (as De Quincey calls it)..."
Context: On page 424 of the Memoirs, Symonds says that his father "belonged to the school which had been formed Wordsworth, Coleridge, De Quincey..." so it seems more likely that he would've read an older edition (an 1850 edition) owned by his father rather than one of the later editions, such as the 1860 edition.
Source Contributor: Shelby York