Thomas De Quincey by Jens Rusch

This short paper entitled ‘Thomas De Quincey: The Opium Eater and the Masonic Text’ appeared in the renowned Masonic academic journal Ars Quatuor Coronatorum Vol.129, (2016), pp.276-281. The paper discusses the possible Masonic influences that led to Thomas De Quincey’s work Origin of the Rosicrucians and the Free-Masons.

Thomas De Quincey became more famous for his work work The Confessions of an Opium Eater and had met William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The paper can be freely downloaded from the link above that takes you to the academia.edu site.