“Morrison has elegantly and fluently delved into the works and excavated the gems that solidify De Quincey’s place amid the firmament of Romantic writers who defined their era….To curate De Quincey’s life’s works is no mean feat, let alone to do it with such discernment and intuition. It is a task that can only be performed by one whose life has become just as infused with De Quincey, as De Quincey’s works were infused with opium….To arrive at the entrance to De Quincey’s opulent universe armed with this collection along with Morrison’s unrivalled 2009 biography is really to embark upon an education unlike any other.”– Roisin McCloskey, The BARS Review, January 2025

“One of the themes that emerges in Robert Morrison’s impressive edition of De Quincey’s selected works, in Oxford University Press’s ‘21st Century Oxford Authors’ series, is the extent to which the author was awed by the sheer quantity of print, the mass of books and magazines, circulating among readers in Britain and abroad, on a scale never before known…. Although these are not the themes that Robert Morrison chooses to highlight in this elegant and beautifully produced volume, they are nonetheless evident throughout the selection of works that he presents. With his surefooted editorial stance, Morrison leads us through a rich selection of De Quincey’s greatest hits.”– Josephine McDonagh, Romanticism, April 2023

“Morrison…brings his editorial experience and exceptional knowledge of De Quincey’s oeuvre to bear on the preparation of this single-volume edition of De Quincey’s selected writings for OUP’s Oxford 21st-Century Authors series….Morrison wisely keeps the spotlight on the most perennially interesting and enjoyable of De Quincey’s works, which were closely bound up with his literary identity and his drug addiction, and which remain central to his critical legacy….This handy one-volume edition represents a carefully focused and expertly edited selection of De Quincey’s major works informed by the latest textual scholarship.”– Daniel Roberts, The Wordsworth Circle, Fall 2021

“Robert Morrison, in this edition of Thomas De Quincey for the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series, presents an excellent selection for a new reader….Morrison is a fine textual scholar, and in this edition includes interesting selections of manuscript material offering textual variants. Morrison’s extensive notes carefully explain matters such as De Quincey’s numerous Latin quotations (he was an exceptional, if somewhat tiresome, classicist), arcane vocabulary and new coinages.”– Jane Darcy, Times Literary Supplement, October 2020