Reading Group - Thomas de Quincey

Far more than a memoir of addiction, de Quincey's celebrated and vastly influential Confessions are a hallucinatory, path-breaking exploration of the links between experience, imagination and creativity by one of English literature's great prose stylists. The Penguin edition the group will be reading includes Suspiria de Profundis and the English Mail Coach, two equally remarkable companion-pieces inhabiting the same stimulating nocturnal poetry.