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Review of Guide to the English Lakes by Green. Blackwood’s Mag 12,
July 1822 (attrib W. E. A. Axon, Bookman 1907).
The street companion; or the young man’s guide and the old man’s
comfort in the choice of shoes; ne sutor ultra crepidam; by the
Rev Tom Foggy Dribble. London Mag 10, Jan 1825 (attrib W. E. A.
Axon, The Library 1907).
The New Times Jan–May 1825. 15 unsigned or pseudonymous articles
(see G.Lindop 1981, below).
Review of Michael Scott; a romance by A. Cunningham. Edinburgh
Saturday Post Dec 1827 (attrib D. Groves, RES n.s. vol 41 May
1990).
The peasant of Portugal. In The literary souvenir; or cabinet of
poetry and romance, ed A. Watts 1827; ed E. Baxter 1985.
The Cacadore; a story of the peninsular war. 1828; ed E. Baxter 1988.
Edinburgh Literary Gazette May–Oct 1829. 86 anon paragraphs on
German and Danish literature (attrib Groves, N & Q 235, Mar
1990).
Review of Exodus; or the curse of Egypt, a sketch from scripture,
and other poems by T. B. J. Edinburgh Evening Post Jan 1830
(attrib Groves, N & Q 232, Dec 1987).
Lessons of the French Revolution. The Independent 77 1914 (supposedly
written 1848 but unpbd).
Spuriously attributed works
The stranger’s grave 1823 (attrib W. E. A. Axon, Nation 1907); ed E.
Baxter 1988. Now known to be by the Rev G. Gleig.
The love-charm. Knight’s Quart Mag 1825. Now known to be from
the German of Teick by J. Hare. See H. K. Galinsky, §2, below.
Traditions of the Rabbins. By G. Croly but included as De Quincey’s
in De Quincey’s writings, ed J. T. Fields 1851–9; and in Selections
grave and gay vol 14 1860. Continued to be rptd as De Quincey’s
up to 2nd Amer edn of 1873 and 4th Edinburgh edn of 1878.
Parodies
North, C. [John Wilson]. In Noctes ambrosianae. Blackwood’s Mag
14, Oct 1823 and 27, Apr–Aug 1830; rptd as Noctes ambrosianae, 4
vols 1864.
Moir, D. M. De Quincey’s revenge; a ballad in three fittes.
Blackwood’s Mag 48, Nov 1840.
[Hamley, E. B.] A recent confession of an opium-eater. Blackwood’s
Mag 80, Dec 1856.
§2
See also §1, above, especially contemporary reviews of individual works and
letters and papers (articles containing letters are there and not below).
Material included in introductions to eds has not been included here, nor have
several articles of minor biographical interest. A comprehensive bibliography
of secondary material on De Quincey 1821–1975 is provided by H. O.
Dendurent, Thomas De Quincey; a reference guide, Boston 1978.
Biographies
Knight, C. In Passages of a working life during half a century; with a
prelude of early reminiscences, ed J. Thorne, 3 vols 1864.
‘Page, H. A.’ [A. H. Japp]. Thomas De Quincey; his life and writings;
with unpublished correspondence. 2 vols 1877; rptd in 1 vol 1890
(rev with omissions and addns). With appendix by W. C. B.
Eatwell, A medical view of Mr De Quincey’s case, and
Reminiscences by J. Hogg.
Masson, D. De Quincey. London and New York 1881 (EML).
Findlay, J. R. Personal recollections of Thomas De Quincey.
Edinburgh 1886.
Hogg, J. De Quincey and his friends; personal recollections, souvenirs
and anecdotes of Thomas De Quincey, his friends and associates.
1895.
Eaton, H. A. Thomas De Quincey; a biography. Oxford 1936, New
York 1936; rptd New York 1972. 1936 edn rev as introd to Elwin’s
edn of Confessions of an English opium-eater, 1956.
Sackville-West, E. A flame in sunlight; the life and works of Thomas
De Quincey. 1936 (pbd in USA as Thomas De Quincey; his life and
work).
Metcalf, J. C. De Quincey; a portrait. 1940, rptd New York 1963.
Jordan, J. E. De Quincey to Wordsworth; a biography of a relationship.
Berkeley CA 1962.
Moreux, F. Thomas De Quincey; la vie – l’homme – l’oeuvre. Paris
1964.
Lindop, G. The opium-eater; a life of Thomas De Quincey. 1981.
Textual/bibliographical criticism
Useful bibliographical and textual criticism may often be found in edns of De
Quincey’s works, see section §1, above.
Rowan, A. B. N & Q 2nd ser 7 1859.
D., E. Curious error in De Quincey. N & Q 3rd ser 4 1863.
Curwen, H. In A history of booksellers, 1873.
Watts, T. The fatal marksman. Athenaeum no 2830, Jan 1882.
Japp, A. H. Some unconscious confessions of De Quincey. GM 261
1886.
Fields, J. T. A shelf of old books. 1894.
Axon, W. E. A. De Quincey and the Blackwoods. Manchester
Guardian 12 Oct 1897.
Axon, W. E. A. De Quincey and J. F. Ferrier. Manchester Quart 17
1898.
Axon, W. E. A. The De Quincey collection at Moss Side. Manchester
Herald 16 Sep 1899, rptd Library Assoc Record 2, Aug 1900.
Axon, W. E. A. De Quincey and Kant. Manchester Guardian 30 Oct
1906.
Axon, W. E. A. Thomas De Quincey. Bookman (London) 31, Feb 1907.
Axon, W. E. A. De Quincey and T. F. Dibdin. Library 2nd ser 8, July
1907.
Axon, W. E. A. De Quincey and the stranger’s grave. Nation (London)
85, Dec 1907.
Axon, W. E. A. Some De Quincey proof sheets. Scottish Rev Nov 1908.
Axon, W. E. A. The canon of De Quincey’s writings; with references
to some of his unidentified articles. Trans of the Royal Society of
Lit of the UK 32 1914.
Wells, J. E. The story of Wordsworth’s Cintra. SP 18 1921.
Wells, J. E. De Quincey’s punctuation of Wordsworth’s Cintra. TLS 3
Nov 1932.
Wells, J. E. Wordsworth and De Quincey in Westmorland politics
1818. PMLA 55 1940; addn by L. N. Broughton, PMLA 56 1941.
Wells, J. E. De Quincey and the Prelude in 1839. PQ 20, Jan 1941.
Burke, T. The obsequies of Mr Williams; new light on De Quincey’s
famous tale of murder. Bookman (New York) 68 1928.
Meyerstein, E. H. W. De Quincey’s copy of Chatterton’s miscellanies.
TLS 8 May 1930.
Super, R. H. De Quincey and a murderer’s conscience. TLS 5 Dec
1936.
Forward, K. Libellous attack on De Quincey. PMLA 52 1937.
Galinsky, H. K. Is Thomas De Quincey author of The love charm?
MLN 52 1937.
De Quincey on French drama. More Books 14 1939.
Musgrove, S. and M. K. Joseph. A De Quincey manuscript. TLS 30
Mar 1951.
Byrns, R. H. De Quincey’s first article in Blackwood’s Magazine.
BNYPL 60 1956.
Byrns, R. H. Some unpublished works of De Quincey. PMLA 71 1956.
Mixon, P. L. The nature and origin of modifications in the text of De
Quincey’s writings published in collective editions. Unpbd PhD
diss, Univ of Florida, 1956.
Jack, I. De Quincey revises his Confessions. PMLA 72 1957.
Byrns, R. H. De Quincey’s revisions in the Dream Fugue. PMLA 77
1962.
Byrns, R. H. A note on De Quincey’s The vision of sudden death. N &
Q 207, May 1962.
Jack, I. De Quincey’s revisions in The dream-fugue. PMLA 77 1962.