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Thomas de Quincey, 1785-1859.

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Although better known as a literary figure, Thomas de Quincey was also a staunch and very eloquent supporter of the Ricardian Classical School. 

Thomas de Quincey's life was fraught with misfortunes, most of them of his own making.  Born to a family of Manchester textile merchants, his father's early death portended problems to come.  After a brilliant early school career, Thoamas ran away from home at 17, living on the streets of London as a mendicant.  Reconciled to his family in 1803, he attended Worcester College, Oxford the next year.  It was around this time that he grew acquainted with the English romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and began experimenting with opium. In 1808, he dropped out of Oxford and moved to the Lake district, settling in at a cottage in Grasmere in 1809, near where his literary friends lived. 

De Quincey had plans to write a great treatise on Kantian philosophy during his retreat, to be called "De Emendatione Humani Intellectus", but as his opium addiction deepened, he could hardly get it started.  In 1816, de Quincey married Margaret Simpson, the mother of his illegitimate child and grew gradually estranged from the Wordsworths. De Quincey's opium addiction became particularly acute in the two years between 1817 and 1819.  He would later publish his autobiographical recollections of this experience in his famous Confessions of an Opium Eater, first published in London Magazine in 1820.

According to his recollections, around 1811, at the age of 26, Thomas De Quincey began reading political economy, devouring books from English and French classical economists, but was not particularly impressed by them.  In the depths of his worst period of his opium addiction, in late 1818, a friend sent him a copy of David Ricardo's Principles, which he took up as an instant convert, and became practically a lifesaver.  De Quincey records his encounter with Ricardo's theory in his Confessions:

"In this state of imbecility, I had, for amusement, turned my attention to political economy. My understanding, which formerly had been as active and restless as a hyena, could not, I suppose (so long as I lived at all), sink into utter lethargy; and political economy offers this advantage to a person in my state - that, though it is eminently an organic science (no part, that is to say, but what acts on the whole, as the whole again reacts on and through each part), yet the several parts may be detached and contemplated singly. Great as was the prostration of my powers at this time, yet I could not forget my knowledge; and my understanding had been far too many years intimate with severe thinkers, with logic, and the great masters of knowledge, not to be aware of the utter feebleness of the main herd of modern economists. I had been led in 1811 to look into loads of books and pamphlets on many branches of economy; and, at my desire, M.[argaret] sometimes read to me chapters from more recent works, or parts of parliamentary debates. I saw that these were generally the very dregs and rinsings of the human intellect; and that any man of sound head, and practised in wielding logic with a scholastic adroitness, might take up the whole academy of modern economists, and throttle them between heaven and earth with his finger and thumb, or bray their fungus heads to powder with a lady's fan. At length, in 1819, a friend in Edinburgh sent me down Mr. Ricardo's book: and recurring to my own prophetic anticipation of the advent of some legislator for this science, I said, before I had finished the first chapter, "Thou art the man!" Wonder and curiosity were emotions that had long been dead in me. Yet I wondered once more: I wondered at myself that I could once again be stimulated to the effort of reading: and much more I wondered at the book. Had this profound work been really written in England during the nineteenth century? Was it possible? I supposed thinking had been extinct in England. Could it be that an Englishman, and he not in academic bowers, but oppressed by mercantile and senatorial cares, had accomplished what all the universities of Europe, and a century of thought, had failed even to advance by one hair's breadth? All other writers had been crushed and overlaid by the enormous weight of facts and documents; Mr. Ricardo had deduced, à priori, from the understanding itself, laws which first gave a ray of light into the unwieldy chaos of materials, and had constructed what had been but a collection of tentative discussions into a science of regular proportions, now first standing on an eternal basis."

(Thomas de Quincey, "Confessions of an English Opium- Eater", Oct, 1820,  p.370-71 (1821 edition, p.99-100)
(later 1856 edition modified this passage considerably).

 In 1818-9, he did a stint as an editor for the Westmoreland Magazine, before being dismissed.  De Quincey published his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - his greatest hit - in 1820, the first a flurry of articles he contributed to the London Magazine.  Economics was one of his topics. In 1823-4, de Quincey promoted David Ricardo's work and entered into the debates then raging in economics on the theory of value and the Malthusian population doctrine.  De Quincey's "Dialogues of the Three Templars" (1824) are a very capable defense of Ricardian economics.  He had his reservations as well: e.g. he was never keen on the repeal of the Corn Laws and also disputed the notion that there was an "inexorable" tendency for profits to decline.  De Quincey's apologism for the Ricardian doctrine did not prevent the flowering of intimate friendships with its critics, notably Thomas Carlyle.  They both shared an affinity for German Romanticism.

After 1825, De Quncey joined the foundling Scottish Tory rag, the Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.  He moved to Edinburgh by 1829 (although still split his time with his Grasmere cottage).  For the remainder of his life, De Quincey continued writing a fast and furious number of articles on all sorts of topics -- literary criticism, theology, philosophy, politics, etc. -- for Blackwood's and other magazines like  Tait's and Hogg's.  In 1835-38, Quincy contributed a series of celebrated biographies of literary figures ("Goethe", "Schiller", Pope", "Shakespeare" and, later on "Coleridge") for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.  

All the while, de Quincey was sliding deeper into debt and trouble.  De Quincey moved to Edinburgh in 1830, but the creditors and the furies were fast at his heels.  He was convicted and imprisoned in 1831 for debts.  He was convicted twice more in 1833 and three times in 1834, forcing him to take refuge in a debt sanctuary for a time.  In the meantime, two of his sons died -- the first, aged two, in 1832, the second, aged eighteen, in 1834.  In 1837, his wife died and he was convicted twice more for debts.  De Quincy started taking opium intensely again, got into more debt and went into hiding in Glasgow.  To cap his misfortunes, another son died in 1842, during the Opium War against China.  

In 1843, De Quincey, now a broken man, retired to a cottage in Lasswade.  It was here that he finished his main treatise on economics, The Logic of Political Economy (1844).  His Suspiria de Profundis, a sequel to the Confessions, were published in 1845.  In 1850, he moved back to Edinburgh and, around the same time, a pair of English and American publishers separately began putting out his collected works.  De Quincey's collected writings, widely praised,  brought him finally the ounce of joy he needed before he died.  

 

  

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Major Works of Thomas de Quincey

  • Prolegomena to All Future Systems of Political Economy
  • "Danish Origin of the Lake-Country Dialect", 1819-20, Westmorland Gazette.  four parts (Nov 13, Dec 4, Dec 18, Jan 8) [repr in Pollitt, 1890, p.50].
  • -- 1821 --
  • "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", 1821-22, London Magazine.
    • "Confessions of an English Opium Eater, being an extract from the life of a scholar", 1821, London Magazine, v.4, Part 1 (Sep 1821, p.293), Part 2 (Oct 1821, p.353), Part 3 - Appendix (v.6,  Dec, 1822, p.512) [passage on Ricardo, p.370-71]
    • 1822 book edition. 1823 3rd ed, 1826 4th ed;
    • 1856 revised edition.
  • [XYZ] "Letter in reply to James Montgomery", 1821, London Magazine, v.4 (Dec), p.584.
  • [Grasmeriensis Teutonizans] "Jean Paul Frederick Richter", 1821, London Magazine, v.4 (Dec), p.606.
  • "Analects from John Paul Richter", 1821, London Magazine, (Dec), p.613
  • -- 1822 --
  • "Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Appendix", 1822, London Magazine, v.6 (Dec), p.512.
  • -- 1823 --
  • [XYZ] "Letters to a Young Man who's Education has been Neglected No.I", 1823, London Magazine,  v.7 (Jan), p.84.
  • [XYZ] "Letters to a Young Man who's Education has been Neglected No.II - Outline of the Work", 1823, London Magazine,  v.7 (Feb), p.189.
  • [XYZ] "Anecdotage No.1 - Miss Hawkins' Anecdotes", v.7 (Mar), p.261
  • [XYZ] "Letters to a Young Man who's Education has been Neglected No.III - On Languages", 1823, London Magazine,  v.7 (Mar), p.325.
  • [XYZ] "Death of a German Great Man - Herder", 1823, London Magazine,  v.7 ( (Apr), p.373.
  • [Anon] "Anglo-German Dictionaries", 1823, London Magazine,  v.7 ( (Apr), p.442.
  • [Z] "Prefigurations of Remote Events", 1823, London Magazine,  v.7 (Apr), p.463
  • [Anon] "Mr Schnackenberger, or two masters for one dog (from the German)", 1823, London Magazine,  v.7, Pt.1 (May, p.493); Pt.2 (June, p.646)
  • [XYZ] "Letters to a Young Man who's Education has been Neglected No.IV - On Languages (continued) ", 1823, London Magazine,  v.7 (May), p.556
  • [Z] "Moral Effects of Revolutions", 1823, London Magazine,  v.7 (May), p.564.
  • [XYZ] "Letters to a Young Man who's Education has been Neglected, No.V - On the English notices of Kant",  1823, London Magazine,  v.8 (July), p.87
  • [Anon] "The Dice (from the German)",  1823, London Magazine,  v.8 (Aug), p.117.
  • [XYZ]  "Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater, No.I - Walking Stewart", 1823, London Magazine, v.8, (Sep), p.253
  • [Anon] "Walladmor :- Sir Walter Scott's German Novel", 1823, London Magazine, v.8, (Oct), p.343.
  • [XYZ] "Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater, No.II - Malthus", 1823, London Magazine, v.8, (Oct), p.349 [moa],
  • [XYZ] "Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater, No.III - On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth", 1823, London Magazine, v.8, (Oct), p.353.
  • [XYZ] "Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater, No.IV - English Dictionaries-Reformadoes-Proverbs-Antagonism-To the Lakers-On Suicide", 1823, London Magazine, v.8, (Nov), p.493, .
  • [Anon] "The King of Hayti (from the German)", 1823, London Magazine, v.8, (Nov), p.517.
  • [XYZ] "Answer of the Opium Eater to Mr. Hazlitt's letter respecting Mr. Malthus", 1823, London Magazine, v.8 (Dec), p.569. [pdf]
  • [XYZ]  "The Measure of Value", 1823, London Magazine, v.8 (Dec), p.586 [pdf] (review of Malthus)
  • [Anon] "The Fatal Marksman", 1823, Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations, v.3, p.141.
  • -- 1824 --
  • [XYZ] "Historico-Critical Inquiry of the Origin of the Rosicrucians and the Free-Masons", 1824, London Magazine, v.9, Pt.1, (Jan, p.5), Pt.2 (Feb, p.140), Pt.3 (Mar, p.256)
  • [Anon] "Analects from John Paul Richter continued", 1824, London Magazine, v.9  (Feb), p.117.
  • [XYZ] "Dreams upon the Universe by Richter", 1824, London Magazine, v.9 (Mar), p.242.
  • [XYZ] "The Services of Mr. Ricardo to the Science of Political Economy, briefly and plainly stated", 1824, London Magazine, v.9 (Mar) p.308 [pdf]
  • [XYZ] "Dialogues of Three Templars on Political Economy, chiefly in relation to the Principles of Mr. Ricardo", 1824, London Magazine, v.9, "Dialogue I",  (Apr, p.341), Dialogue II (Apr, p.427)  Dialogues III, IV, V & VI (May, p.547).[moa]
  • [XYZ] "Kant on National Character in Relation to the Sense of the Sublime and. Beautiful (a translation)", 1824, London Magazine, v.9, (Apr), p.381.
  • [Anon] "Plans for the Instruction of Boys in Large Numbers", 1824, London Magazine, v.9, Pt.1 (Apr p.410), Pt. 2 (May, p.503)
  • [Trans] "Abstract of Swedenborgianism by Immanuel Kant", 1824, London Magazine, v.9,  (May, p.489)
  • [XYZ] "Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater, No.IV - False Distinctions - Madness - English Physiology"  1824, London Magazine, v.9,  (June), p.642.
  • [XYZ] "Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater, No.V - Superficial Knowledge - Manuscripts of Meltmoth - Scriptural Allusion Explained ", 1824, London Magazine, v.10,  (Jul), p.25
  • [Anon] "Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship",  1824, London Magazine, v.10,  Pt.1 (Aug, p.189), Pt.2 (Sep, p.291)
  • [Trans] "Idea of a Universal History on a Cosmo-political Plan, by Immanuel Kant", 1824, London Magazine, v.10 (Oct), p.385
  • [Anon] "The Icognito, or Count-Fitz-Hum", 1824, Knight's Quarterly Magazine, v.3 (No.5 - Nov), p.143
  • [XYZ] "Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater -Falsification of the History of England", 1824, London Magazine, v.10, (Dec), p.625.
  • -- 1825 --
  • [Pseud.] "The Street Companion; or, the young man's guide and the old man's comfort in the choice of shoes, by the Rev. Tom Foggy Dribble", 1825, London Magazine v.1 (NS) (Jan), p.73 [attrib. by Green]
  • "The Love Charm (from the German of Tieck)", 1825, Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Fall.
  • [Trans. of Willibald Alexis] Walladmoor, 'freely translated into German from the English of Sir Walter Scott', and now freely from the German into English, 1825, v.1, v.2
  • -- 1826 --
  • "Gallery of the German Prose Classics:- Lessing; with a translation from his Laocoon", 1826-27, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Pt.1(Nov, 1826, p.728), Pt.2 (Jan 1827, p.9).
  • -- 1827 --
  • "Gallery of the German Prose Classics III:- Kant" 1827, BEM, (Feb), p.133.
  • "The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (from the German)", 1827, BEM, (Feb), p.135.
  • [XYZ] "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts",  1827, BEM, (Feb), p.199. [see also supp. 1839]
  • -- 1828 --
  • "Toilette of the Hebrew lady, exhibited in six scenes (digest from the German)",  1828, BEM,  (Mar), p.295
  • "Elements of Rhetoric" , 1828, BEM, (Dec), p.885. (review of Whately)
  • "Sketch of Professor Wilson: in a letter to an American gentleman", 1829, Edinburgh Literary Gazette, Pt.1 (Jun 6), Pt.2 (Jun 20), Pt.3 (Jul 11)
  • -- 1830 --
  • [XYZ] "Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays", 1830, BEM, (Aug), p.244.
  • "Life of Richard Bentley, D.D., by J.H. Monk, D.D.", 1830, BEM, Pt.1, (Sep, p.437), Pt.2 (Oct. p.644).
  • "French Revolution", 1830, BEM (Sep), p.542. [attrib.in Fetter?]
  • "On Novels", 1830
  • -- 1831 --
  • "Dr. Parr and his contemporaries", 1831, BEM, Pt.1 (Jan, p.61), p.2 (Feb, p.376), Pt.3 (May, p.763), Pt.4 (Jun, p.901)
  • -- 1832 --
  • Klosterheim, or The Masque, 1832 [bk][moa] 
  • "McGregor's British America", 1832, BEM, (Jun) p.907 [attrib. in Fetter]
  • "The Caesars, I - Introduction, Julius Caesar", 1832, BEM (Oct), p.551,
  • "James's History of Charlemagne", 1832, BEM, (Nov), p.786
  • "The Caesars, Ch. II - Augustus", 1832,  BEM, (Dec), p.949.
  • -- 1833 --
  • "The Caesars, Ch. III - Caligula, Claudius, and Nero", 1833, BEM, (Jan) p.43.
  • "The Revolution of Greece, Part I", 1833, BEM, (Apr), p.476. (no Part II) (supplement on Suliotes, p.485n)
  • "Milton", 1833, in Knight, editor, Gallery of Portraits, v.1, p.43 (SDUK).
  • "(Kant on the) Age of the Earth", 1833 Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, v.4 (Nov), p.165
  • "(Recollections of) Mrs. Hannah More", 1833, Tait's, v.4 (Dec), p.293.
  • -- 1834 --
  • "Animal Magnetism", 1834, Tait's, v.4, (Jan), p.456.
  • "Sketches of Life and Manners; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater", 1834-41, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (25 parts)
    • 1834 (v.1, NS): Pt.1 (Feb, p.18), Pt.2 (Mar, p.83), Pt.3 (Apr, p.196), Pt.4 - "Irish Rebellion" (May, p.263), Pt.5 (Aug, p.482), Pt.6 - "Travelling in England Thirty Years Ago" (Dec, p.797).
    • 1835 (v.2, NS): Pt. 7 - "Oxford" (Feb, p.77), Pt.8 (Jun, p.366), Pt.9 (Aug, p.541)
    • 1836: (v.3, NS) Pt. 10 - "Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater", (Jun, p.350)
    • 1837 (v.4, NS): Pt.11 - "Literary Connexions or Acquaintances" (Feb, p.65), Pt.12 (Mar, p. 169), [Letter to editor from Shepherd: "Mr De Quincey and the Literary Society of Liverpool in 1801", May, p.337]
    • 1838 (v.5, NS) Pt. 13 (my brother Pink) (Mar, p.152), Pt. 14 (Recollections of Charles Lamb)  (Apr, p.237), Pt.15 (Charles Lamb II) (June, p.355), Pt. 16 (Charles Lamb, III -  Walladmor) (Sep, p.559)
    • 1839 (v.6, NS) (see also "Lake Reminscences" below), Pt.17 - "Recollections of Grasmere" (Sep, p.569), Pt.18 - "Saracen's Head" (Dec, p.804)
    • 1840 (v.7, NS) Pt. 19 - "Westmoreland and the Dalesman" (Jan p.32), Pt. 20 (Lake Society, Charles Lloyd) (Mar, p.159), Pt.21 (Elizabeth Smith, K- family) (Jun, p.346) Pt.22 (Prof. Wilson, Siddons, Hannah More) (Aug, p.525),  Pt.23 (Walking Stewart, estrangement from Wordsworth) (Oct, p.629), Pt. 24 (London, Junius, Clare) (Dec, p.765)
    • 1841 (v.8, NS), Pt. 25 (dueling) (Feb, p.97)
  • "The Caesars, Ch. IV - the Patriot Emperors", 1834, BEM, v. 35 (Jun), p.961.
  • "The Caesars, Ch. V", 1834, BEM, v. 36 (Jul), p.67.
  • "The Caesars, Ch. VI - conclusion", 1834, BEM, v. 36 (Aug), p.173.
  • "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", 1834-35, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1834 (v.1 NS), Pt.1 (Sep, p.509), Pt.2 (Oct, p.588), Pt.3 (Nov, p.685), 1835: (v.2 NS), Pt.4 (p.3)
  • -- 1835 --
  • "A Tory's Account of Toryism, Whiggism and Radicalism, in a letter to a friend from Bengal", 1835-36, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Pt.1 (Dec, 1835, p.769), Pt.2 (Jan, 1836,  p.1).
  • [WWW] "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von" 1835, in Napier, ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, (7th ed), v.10, p.596
  • -- 1837 --
  • "Revolt of the Tartars; or, flight of the Kalmuck Khan and his people from the Russian territories to the frontiers of China", 1837,  BEM, v. 42 (Jul), p.89
  • [WWW] "Pope, Alexander" 1837, in Napier, ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, (7th ed), v.18, p.391
  • -- 1838 --
  • "The Household Wreck" (a tale), 1838, BEM, v.43 (Jan), p.1
  • "The Avenger" (a tale), 1838, BEM, v.44 (Aug), p.208
  • [WWW] "Schiller, John Christopher Frederick von", 1838, in Napier, ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, (7th ed), v.19, p.680.
  • [WWW] "Shakespeare, William", 1838, in Napier, ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, (7th ed), v.20, pt.1,  p.169
  • "A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Literature in its Foremost Pretensions, I", 1838, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, v.5, (Dec) p.763  (first signed piece by De Quincey?)
  • -- 1839 --
  • "Lake Reminiscences from 1807 to 1830", 1839, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, v.6.
    • Pt. I - William Wordsworth (Jan, p.1)
    • Pt. II - Wordsworth cont'd (Feb, p.90),
    • Pt. III - Wordsworth cont'd (Apr, p.246),
    • Pt. IV - William Wordsworth and Robert Southey (Jul, p.453),
    • Pt. V - Southey, Wordsworth and Coleridge (Aug, p.513)
  • "Dilemmas on the Corn Law Question", 1839, BEM, v.45 (Feb), p.170 [attrib. in Fetter]
  • "On the English Language", 1839, BEM, v.45, (Apr) p.455
  • "A Brief Appraisal of the Greek literature in its foremost pretensions, II - The Greek Orators", 1839, Tait's, v.6 (Jun), p.374.
  • "On Hume's Argument against Miracles", 1839, BEM, v.46, (Jul) p.91
  • "Casuistry" (Pt.1), 1839, BEM, v.46, (Oct), p.455
  • "Philosophy of Roman History - On the True Relations to Civilization and Barbarism of the Roman Western Empire", 1839, BEM, v.46, (Nov),  p.644
  • "Second Paper on Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts", 1839, BEM, v.46, (Nov),  p.661
  • "Milton", 1839, BEM, v.46, (Dec), p.775
  • "Dinner Real and Reputed",  1839, BEM, v.46, (Dec), p.815
  • -- 1840 --
  • "On the Essenes",  1840, BEM, v.47, Pt.1 (Jan, p.103), Pt.2 (Apr,  p.463), Pt.3 (May,  p.639).
  • "War with China, and the Opium Question", 1840, BEM, v.47,  (Mar), p.368
  • "The Opium and China Question", 1840, BEM, v.47,  (Jun), p.717  - blames opium war on free trade, defends EIC monopoly on trade with China that was withdrawn in 1833.
  • "Postscript on the Opium and the China Question", 1840, BEM, v.47, (Jun) p.847 - claims Wellington agreed with him.
  • "Style", 1840-41, BEM, v.48, Pt.1 (Jul, p.1), Pt.2 (Sep,  p.387), Pt.3 (Oct, p.508), 1841, v.49, Pt.4 (Feb, p.214).
  • -- 1841 --
  • "Plato's Republic", 1841, BEM, v.50, (Jul) p.40
  • "Sir Robert Peel's Position on Next Resuming Power", 1841, BEM, v.50, (Sep) p.393 [attrib. in Fetter]
  • "Homer and the Homeridae", 1841, BEM, v.50, Pt.1 (Oct, p.411), Pt.2 - "the Iliad (Nov, p.618),  Pt.3 - "Verdict on the Homeric Question" (Dec, p.747)
  • "Canton Expedition and Convention", 1841, BEM, v.50, (Nov), p.677 [attrib. in Fetter]
  • -- 1842 --
  • "Philosophy of Herodotus", 1842, BEM, v.51,(Jan), p.1
  • "The Pagan Oracles", 1842, BEM, v.51, (Mar) p.277
  • "Sir Robert Peel's Policy", 1842, BEM, v.51, (Apr) p.537 [attrib. in Fetter]
  • "Cicero", 1842, BEM, v.52,  (Jul), p.1
  • "Modern Greece", 1842, BEM, v.52,  (Jul), p.120
  • "Anti-Corn-Law Deputation to Sir Robert Peel",  1842, BEM, v.52, (Aug), p.271
  • "Ricardo Made Easy, or What is the Radical Difference between Ricardo and Adam Smith?", 1842, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, v.52, Part 1 (Sep, p.338), Part 2 (Oct,  p.457). Part 3 (Dec, p.718).
  • -- 1843 --
  • "Ceylon", 1843, BEM, v.54, (Nov), p.622
  • -- 1844 --
  • "Secession from the Church of Scotland", 1844, BEM, v.55, (Feb), p.221
  • "Greece under the Romans", 1844, BEM, v.56, (Oct), p.524
  • The Logic of Political Economy, 1844 [bk] [moa] [1859 ed, Boston, bk]
  • -- 1845 --
  • "Coleridge and Opium Eating", 1845, BEM, v.57, (Jan), p.117
  • "Suspiria de Profundis: being a sequel to the confessions of an English Opium-eater", 1845, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, v.57, Part 1 (Mar, p.269), Pt. 2 (Apr, p.489), Pt. 3 (Jun,  p.739),
  • "Suspiria de Profundis Part II", 1845, BEM, v.58 (Jul), p.43
  • "On Wordsworth's Poetry", 1845, Tait's EM, v.12, (Sep) p.545 (signed)
  • "On the Temperance Movement in Modern Times", 1845, Tait's EM, v.12, (Oct) p.658
  • "Notes on Gillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits - I. William Godwin, II. John Foster", 1845, Tait's EM, v.12 (Nov) p.724.
  • "Notes on Gillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits, No. 2 - III William Hazlitt, IV. Percy B. Shelley", 1845, Tait's EM, v.12 (Dec), p.756.
  • -- 1846 --
  • "Notes on Gillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits, No. 3 - IV. Percy Bysshe Shelley cont'd.", 1846, Tait's EM, v.13, (Jan), p.23.
  • "The Antigone of Sophocles as represented on the Edinburgh stage in December 1845", 1846, Tait's EM, v.13, Pt.1 (Feb, p.111), Pt.2 (Mar, p.157)
  • "Memoirs and correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley", 1846, Tait's EM, v.13,  (Mar) p.192
  • "On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement", 1846, Tait's EM, v.13,  Pt.1, (Apr, p.215), Pt.2 (Jun, p.341).
  • "Notes on Gillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits, No. 4 - V. John Keats", 1846, Tait's EM, v.13, (Apr), p.249.
  • "Glance at the works of Mackintosh", 1846, Tait's EM, v.13,  (Jul) p.414.
  • "System of the Heavens, as revealed by Lord Rosse's Telescopes", 1846, Tait's EM, v.13, ( (Sep) p.566
  • -- 1847 --
  • "Notes on Walter Savage Landor", 1847, Tait's EM, v.14,  Pt.1 (Jan, p.18), Pt.2 (Feb p.96)
  • "Orthographic Mutineers", 1847, Tait's EM, v.14, (Mar), p.157
  • -- 1848 --
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  • -- 1849 --
  • "The English Mail Coach, or, the glory of motion", 1849, BEM, v.66 (Oct), p.485
  • "The Vision of Sudden Death"  1849, BEM, v.66 (Dec), p.741
  • -- 1854 --
  • "Coleridge, Samuel Taylor", 1854, in T.S. Traill, ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, (8th ed), v.7, p.109.
  • On De Quincey:
  • "Letter to the editor versus XYZ" by HNTS  1824, London Magazine, v.10 (July, p.3) (against XYZ on women)
  • "A Plea for Female Genius" by Surrey, 1824, London Magazine, v.10 (Jul, p.53) (against XYZ on women)
  • "Female Genius" by Julius, 1824, London Magazine (Aug, p.184) (against XYZ on women)
  • Letter against Julius by Surrey, 1824, London Magazine,  (Sep, p.223)
  • Letter by Julius Caesar Junior, 1824, London Magazine, (Oct, p.333)
  • "De Quincey's Revenge, by Delat", 1840, BEM (Nov) p.578
  • --Garbage below-
  • "The Caesars", 1832-4, Blackwood's
  • "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", 1834, Tait's 
  • "Sketches of Life and Manners from the Autobiography of a Late Opium-Eater", 1834-41, Tait's
  • "A Tory’s Account of Toryism, Whiggism and Radicalism", 1835, Tait's
  • "The Revolt of the Tartars", 1837, Blackwood’s. 
  • "Goethe", "Schiller", "Shakespeare", "Pope", 1837, Encyclop Britannica
  • "The Household Wreck", 1838, Blackwood's 
  • "The Avenger: A narrative", 1838, Blackwood's 
  • "Style", 1840, Blackwood's
  • "Cicero", 1842, BEM, v.52, (Jul), p.1
  • "Modern Greece", 1842, BEM, v.52, (Jul) p.120.
  • "Ricardo made easy; or, what is the radical difference between Ricardo and Adam Smith?", 1842, Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, v.52, Part 1 (Sep, p.338), Part 2 (Oct, p.457), Part 3 (Dec, p.718)
  • "Coleridge and Opium-Eating", 1845, Blackwood's
  • Suspiria de Profundis, 1845, Blackwoods
  • "On Wordsworth’s Poetry", 1845, Tait's 
  • "The System of the Heavens as Revealed by Lord Rosse’s Telescope", 1846,Tait's
  • "The English Mail-Coach", 1849, Blackwood's
  • Selections Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished (1853-60)
  • De Quincey's Writings, 1851-70
  • Autobiographic Sketches, 1854 [bk]
  • The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, 1890, Volume 1, Volume 2.
  • The Collected Writings on Thomas De Quincey, new & enlarged edition, (ed. David Masson), 1890
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    • v.14 (1890) - Appendix with chronology (p.375). aasd
  • The Posthumous Works of Thomas de Quincey, 1891-3, Volume 1, Volume 2    

 
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