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Suspiria De Profundis

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First published: 1845
Pages: 155

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Introductory Note
22:25
Part I. The Affliction of Childhood
43:25
The Affliction of Childhood continued
32:34
The Affliction of Childhood continued
48:09
The Palimpsest
21:27
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
20:48
The Apparition of the Brocken
12:32
Finale to Part I - Savannah-La-Mar
6:10
Part II
60:23

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Conceived as a sequel to Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, this sequence of prose meditations by Thomas De Quincey descends into memory, grief, and the strange architecture of dreams. He writes of the death of his sister in early childhood, of the mind as a palimpsest where nothing is ever truly erased, and of the three Ladies of Sorrow who preside over human suffering. The prose is rhythmic and incantatory, closer to poetry than to ordinary essay, and it stands among the finest examples of Romantic dream-writing in English. Opium colors the whole, sharpening some passages into vision and blurring others into reverie. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB.

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Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was an English essayist and critic best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, a pioneering and influential work of autobiographical and psychological writing.