Thomas De Quincey and the language of literature: or, on the necessity of ignorance.(Critical essay)

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

Critics have struggled with Thomas De Quincey's definition of literature for over a century and a half now. First offered in "Letters to a Young Man Whose Education Has Been Neglected" (1823), where he presents a plan of study for the would-be man of letters, De Quincey returns to and revises his definition of literature in a later review essay, "The Works of Alexander Pope" (1848). (1) In both instances, he aligns literature with what he, borrowing from William Wordsworth and possibly William Hazlitt as well, calls power. In the earlier text, De Quincey opposes literature to ...

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