'I can not muster a fiddle': De Quincey, Lamb, Opium and Addiction

Peter Kitson

'I can not muster a fiddle': De Quincey, Lamb, Opium and Addiction

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Abstract

This essay discusses the different associations of opium in the Romantic period. Whereas for De Quincey, opium, taken in the form of laudanum, had a transformative effect upon his writing, leading to terrible dependency, for Charles Lamb, opium was a drug and medicine associated not with creativity but his mundane work as a clerk for the East India Company in London

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Coleridge Bulletin
Editors	Jeffry Barbeau
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Friends of Coleridge
Pages	35-55
Number of pages	21
Volume	61
ISBN (Print)	0968-0551
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 1 Jul 2023

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