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Excerpt from The Prose Poetry of Thomas De Quincey: Inaugural-Dissertation, Presented to the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Leipzig, for the Acquisition of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
1 I. 10. 2 I 14. 3 XIII. 5 M; cf. Minto, 66 (bibl. 'cf. L. Stephen, Fortnightly Rev. 15: 311 (bibl 5 III. 219 Pref. Notice to first Collected Ed. 6 III. 233of the whole record lay in the dreams. For the sake of those the entire narrative, i. E., of the Confessions, arose.1 As one sees, then, most of this work consists of mere narrative, written hurriedly in the first ln stance; the important part, the amount of impassioned prose ranging under no precedents is relatively small. What De, Quincey had intended to present in the Con fessions is another question. The accidental burning of some and mysterious disappearance of others of the twenty-five dreams and noon-day visions, which he had relied upon as a 'crowning grace, reserved for the final pages', are greatly to be deplored. Some of the papers concerned he hoped to recover, so he says, but the only one of, which positive trace remains is The Daughter of Lebanon. This was burned partially, but not so burned as to be absolutely irretrievable,2 and was first printed in 1856 at the end of the revised edition of the Confessions.
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