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Samuel Taylor Coleridge And Opium., Donald John Marotta
Samuel Taylor Coleridge And Opium., Donald John Marotta
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Coleridge's usual use of opium was through laudanum, a mixture of opium and alcohol. This thesis presents the history of and criticism regarding the poet's use of laudanum and the physical and emotional consequences the drug held for him and his writing career.
New England Genealogies: The Life And Writings Of Mary Ellen Chase, William Orin Chesley
New England Genealogies: The Life And Writings Of Mary Ellen Chase, William Orin Chesley
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Mary Ellen Chase, one of the most popular American authors of the twentieth century, was born in Blue Hill, Maine in 1887. Her career as a writer spanned the period between 1909, when she left Maine to teach in the mid-West, and her death in 1973. Much of her literature was influenced by her early life in Blue Hill and by the various members of family. This thesis looks at the historical, biographical, and genealogical factors that gave impetus to a prolific literary output and won her a place among the leading Humanist writers in American literature during the middle …