Opium and the Romantic Imagination by Alethea Hayter

Opium and the Romantic Imagination

Alethea Hayter

388 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative medium-paced
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Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom ...

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