biography
pronunciation:
[duh kwinsee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1785–1859)
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| biography:
| Writer and critic, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. Educated at Manchester Grammar School, he ran away, and wandered in Wales and London. He then spent a short time at Oxford, where he became addicted to opium. On a visit to Bath, he met Coleridge, and through him Southey and Wordsworth; and in 1809 went to live near them in Grasmere. There he set up as an author, largely writing magazine articles. His Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, written in sonorous prose, appeared as a serial in 1821, and brought him instant fame. In 1828 he moved to Edinburgh, and for 20 years wrote for various magazines. |
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