GUILTY THING: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey was an obsessive. Namely, he was obsessed with Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose Lyrical Ballads provided the script to his life. Opium was the making of De Quincey: under the pseudonym "The Opium-Eater," he emerged as the strangest and most original journalist of his age. Illus.