Sterlideva Tatiana Alexandrovna – independent researcher, Moscow
The subject of the article is the list of “Sources of Happiness” in the Diary, 1803, written by the English nineteenth-century essayist Thomas De Quincey. Diary, 1803 is a little-known unique document that tells about one of the most difficult periods of the writer’s life. The list of “Sources of Happiness” is analyzed here in two perspectives: as an auxiliary element for the study of the writer’s biography and as a special scheme-harbinger of De Quincey’s “impassioned prose” which reflects particularities of its inner and outer forms.
Thomas De Quincey; Diary, 1803; “Sources of Happiness”; “impassioned prose”; inner and outer forms; prose poetry; opium addiction.