Notes and Queries:
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc, Volume 25
The following excerpt was discovered in the aforementioned book. The actual date printed in Notes and Queries was March 8, 1862.
Amazon books lists 38 pages of hardcover and paperback editions dating back to 1849. Notes and Queries, for its time, was not as obscure a literary journal as I first thought. The following is an excerpt from Third Series Volume First.
Idone. — Some remarks on De Quincey's writings in Fraser's Magazine for January, 1861, induce me to seek information on the following subject:
Similar in conception to the Confessions of an Opium-eater, and an imitation, is a work styled, The Hasheesh Eater, but there is yet another, of the same class, which appeared in an Indian serial (Saunders' Magazine, Delhi), some years since, subsequent to the former, and prior to the latter. The name is Idone; or, Incidents in the Life of a Dreamer. I have since seen the same, bound up, with a Preface, in which a curious explanation is given of its origin, along with a satisfactory denial, on the part of the unknown author, of his having seen any of De Quincey's writings before the publication of Idone. There was also a holograph entry on a fly-leaf, to the effect that the same author republished Mnemosyne and other pieces, a notice of which, cut out of the Athenaeum, was appended.
Now as several contributors of former years to these Anglo-Indian journals have subsequently reappeared in our own Magazines, perhaps some of the readers of “N. & Q.” may be able to give me the name of the writer in question. The copy of
Idone which fell into my hands was evidently printed in India.
I can’t remember the circumstances of how I ran across this little blurb; more than likely I had googled my name in searching for which web sites had pirated my novels to be downloaded for free on a pdf file. No matter. This popped up among the searches. What made me pause was that in my novel ALBION ROAD the main character, Steiner, is asked about a long experimental prose poem he had composed when he was younger titled THE OPIUM SMOKER. Actually, The Opium Smoker was an early effort of mine written back in the late seventies and I incorporated one of the poems in the novel. I find it all rather humorously coincidental. There is no telling what may turn up when you type your name in a search engine.
The following excerpt was discovered in the aforementioned book. The actual date printed in Notes and Queries was March 8, 1862.
Amazon books lists 38 pages of hardcover and paperback editions dating back to 1849. Notes and Queries, for its time, was not as obscure a literary journal as I first thought. The following is an excerpt from Third Series Volume First.
Idone. — Some remarks on De Quincey's writings in Fraser's Magazine for January, 1861, induce me to seek information on the following subject:
Similar in conception to the Confessions of an Opium-eater, and an imitation, is a work styled, The Hasheesh Eater, but there is yet another, of the same class, which appeared in an Indian serial (Saunders' Magazine, Delhi), some years since, subsequent to the former, and prior to the latter. The name is Idone; or, Incidents in the Life of a Dreamer. I have since seen the same, bound up, with a Preface, in which a curious explanation is given of its origin, along with a satisfactory denial, on the part of the unknown author, of his having seen any of De Quincey's writings before the publication of Idone. There was also a holograph entry on a fly-leaf, to the effect that the same author republished Mnemosyne and other pieces, a notice of which, cut out of the Athenaeum, was appended.
Now as several contributors of former years to these Anglo-Indian journals have subsequently reappeared in our own Magazines, perhaps some of the readers of “N. & Q.” may be able to give me the name of the writer in question. The copy of
Idone which fell into my hands was evidently printed in India.
I can’t remember the circumstances of how I ran across this little blurb; more than likely I had googled my name in searching for which web sites had pirated my novels to be downloaded for free on a pdf file. No matter. This popped up among the searches. What made me pause was that in my novel ALBION ROAD the main character, Steiner, is asked about a long experimental prose poem he had composed when he was younger titled THE OPIUM SMOKER. Actually, The Opium Smoker was an early effort of mine written back in the late seventies and I incorporated one of the poems in the novel. I find it all rather humorously coincidental. There is no telling what may turn up when you type your name in a search engine.
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