Chapter 131 british writer who smoked opium

british writer who smoked opium British opium has poisoned the Chinese for more than a hundred years, and the rest of the poison has only gradually been eliminated.them Unexpectedly, those who harm others will end up harming themselves. In the 19th century, due to the intensified search in India, a large number of Materials and raw materials were bundled back home from India, which naturally included smoke and soil, and as a result, they were smoked in Britain. There are also many opium eaters, and it has become a fashion, just like today's British and American youths who smoke marijuana and opium.

Like hallucinogens.Especially in terms of literati, it is believed that smoking opium can help poetic and literary thinking, so poets, novels Some of them also became addicts.The British literary world in the 19th century was the heyday of Romanticism. Some say it was opium that fueled the romantic fantasies of these English writers, some say it was the romantic fantasies Made these writers obsessed with opium.In short, whatever the causality, English Romanticism It is a fact that many writers and poets have an indissoluble bond with opium. I recently read a new book on the subject: Opium and Romantic Fantasy.original

In the introduction, Zhe Haituo expresses some special feelings about the environment in which he wrote this book, which makes me appreciate his book. The book felt a greater excitement.For, to tell the truth, I am not at all interested in opium itself, The reason I'm interested in opium is because of the thing's close relationship with colonial Hong Kong.since it's Someone once fell in love with this thing in the "ancestral family", and there are many poets and novels, so it is naturally worth it Learn about it in more detail. Likewise, Hitter states in his introduction to this book that he began to write this in 1967.

In this study of opium's influence on the imagination of nineteenth-century writers, the interest is merely historical. On the one hand, I think that modern readers will not be very interested in this issue.I didn't know that I paid attention to the news in the newspaper. The news, readers' letters, and TV and radio specials suddenly revealed that "drug use" is is a major problem in British society at the moment, drug users of all kinds, including opium, and And heroin and morphine, the amount has been more than one day.Britain's drug abuse commission Published a report in 1961, also optimistic that drug use did not show any obvious signs of posing any danger in Britain.

It was risky, but in 1965, the tone changed drastically.In 1958, the United Kingdom had There were only 62 recorded heroin addicts, but in 1966 the number had increased to 670 Ten, and it is reliably predicted that this number will increase to eleven thousand by 1972.And here, more There was one major change: none of the drug offenders in 1959 was under the age of twenty; However, according to the survey in 1965, the number of drug addicts under the age of 20 had increased to 145, of which There are many others under the age of sixteen. A doctor's medical record proves that there is a twelve-year-old boy,

Has developed a heroin addiction. Hayt said that it is unexpected that a historical topic has suddenly become a hot topic in the UK.he bears Talking about how British writers in the 19th century were fond of smoking opium will give encouragement to the current British youth, Almost wanted to give up writing this book. In Britain in the nineteenth century, almost all writers had more or less relationship with opium. Some take opium as a painkiller and sedative, and some are really addicted to it and become addicts son. In his "Opium and Romantic Fantasy", Hyde cited five famous British nineteenth-century

Writers are studied as examples, they are all opium addicts with serious addictions.The five writers are: Poet Krabi, Curry Rich, Thompson, essayist Te Quincy, novelist Collins. In addition to these five addicts, the three major poets of British Romanticism, Byron, Shelley, and Jesse Ci, have all smoked opium.Famous historical novelist Schkeder, essayist Lambert, poetess Browning Madame, and even the novelist Diggins, took opium. Naturally, the most famous nineteenth-century literati who smoked opium in England was the essayist Thomas T. Quin oo.His "Confessions of an English Opium Smoker" has become the nineteenth novel in the history of English literature.

One of the masterpieces of prose in the century, it is also a praise for opium's ability to create "paradise on earth" and enrich the poet's literature. The most famous work of "Imagination". His "Confessions of an English Opium Smoker" is similar to that of the modern French writer Gauceteau. This "Opium--Notes of an Addict" can be said to be the two masterpieces of Western "Opium Literature". Te Quincey studied at Oxford University and was addicted to opium when he was a student.In order to participate In addition to the graduation exam, he had taken a lot of opium, and the exam was translation. It is said that his grades were very good, which made the professor great

Surprised, but on the second day, the side effects of the opium occurred, and I was too tired to handle the day Oral examination, had to flee to London, and gave up the examination for the graduation degree. At that time, the British took opium, instead of using a bong to smoke a lamp, they directly swallowed opium cream.Kun According to West's biography, he became so addicted to smoking that he took three hundred and twenty cigarettes a day from 1813 onwards. jelly, equivalent to about 8,000 drops of opium paste.Friends say he eats opium paste like ordinary food, and From time to time, he took "opium pills" from his snuffbox and swallowed them.

"The opium addict's paradise," "heavenly pleasures," "the abyss of divine enjoyment," all It was T. Quincy's favorite phrase to praise the state of trance after taking opium. George Crabbe was a famous English country poet in the 19th century, and his formal occupation was a priest. He started taking opium, which was sedated by a doctor's advice because of indigestion and dizziness doses.As a result, I became addicted to eating and could not quit for life. Crabbe was a sanctimonious priest, hardly known to be a junkie whose poems The style is also very simple. It was not until after his death in 1832 that his son revealed in the article that Ke

The rabbi had been taking opium for forty years, an old addiction. Among the British literati in the nineteenth century, another opium addict was the great poet Curry Rich. His famous "Ode to the Ancient Boatman" was translated very early in our country.Corriere Born in 1772, it is said that at the age of eight, because of a night's sleep in a wet field, he felt The doctor used opium to relieve his pain due to wind and cold, so he had an indissoluble bond with this "drug". The rheumatism that comes from the cold has become his lifelong incurable disease.His own account of taking opium It is said that it was first seen in a letter to a friend in 1791, when he was still studying at Cambridge University, Due to the attack of rheumatism, opium had to be taken to relieve the pain.In the future, whenever there is any illness or mental illness Uneasy, he used opium as an analgesic and sedative.Until 1800, he kept only crows Tablets are taken as "drugs" and are not "addictive".But in 1801, his rheumatism When the disease became serious, the bones all over the body ached and swelled, so he accepted the advice of doctors and friends and often took opium for treatment. Since then, he has been officially addicted to opium, and must take opium every day.His addiction, gradually increasing, initially I only took about a hundred drops a day, and then I became more and more addicted to smoking. In 1814, I took it one day. Two pints, nearly 20,000 drops of the shocking record. Curry Riche initially believed that opium was beneficial to his ailments, and he believed that he would not be addicted to it, and he could take it at any time stopped.Later, I became really addicted, and it was impossible to stop.He is like many "daoists" who smoke opium Similarly, after being on an elephant, I first realized the poison of opium and wanted to quit, but at this time the will was no longer able to control.He had vowed to quit, had a doctor live with him, and controlled his daily intake, In order to gradually reduce, and even quit.However, just like many people who smoke opium and want to quit, they finally cannot extricate themselves. Like a drug addict, he couldn't endure the pain of "hanging addiction", and repeatedly hid the doctor from taking it secretly, so that he finally Unable to quit, and then simply did not quit. This great poet suffered from opium all his life, which is a great tragedy. His contemporary poets and writers all There are memories of this incident, and there are many detailed records in the history of English literature. Another famous British nineteenth-century writer who smoked opium was the novelist Wicky Collins, who His representative works are "The Woman in White" and "Moonstone", which are two novels with bizarre plots, interesting twists and turns Mysterious Fiction.Collins' novel structure and description method gave the later famous Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle, the author of the detective story, has always been regarded as the pioneer of modern detective novels. Collins' father was a painter who once painted Curry Rich, and he had heard about Curry at home since he was a child. The story of Liege smoking opium. Later, his father suffered from stomach problems and used opium to treat illnesses. Therefore, Collins I am no stranger to opium.In 1860, he contracted severe rheumatic swelling and pain himself, and began to Smoking opium has been addicted since then, and he has not been cured for life.He was a heavy smoker, in such a quantity that a man without A smoker is fatal, but he takes it and nothing happens.He wasn't ashamed of opium, like Curry Ledge, He often brags about his addiction in front of his friends. Francis Thompson, the decadent British poet of the late nineteenth century, was a bigger opium addict son.He loved reading Te Quincy's "Confessions of an English Opium Smoker" since he was a child, and he admired the French The poet Baudelaire and the American poet Edgar Allan Poe.They were all opium addicts.Thompson Like West, a typical opium addict.Not only did he become addicted to opium, but he also openly praised Opium gives him spiritual enjoyment and creates various "non-human" pleasures. Thompson's father was a doctor, and at first he wanted his son to become a priest, and later he wanted his son to study medicine. Neither, what Thompson likes is literature and romantic life, stealing food from his father's medicine cabinet at home He was scolded by his father, had a quarrel, and left home. From then on, he lived a life of nowhere. professional life.He died in 1907 at the age of forty-eight.His addiction to opium could not be quit for life. In nineteenth-century England, opium smoke was commonly used by physicians as a pain reliever and sedative Drugs, thus indirectly causing many "addicts".The great poet Byron often used opium smoke cream as an antidote Tranquility to take, and even complain that the effect is not good.In a diary entry in 1821, he said: "I now Now I don't like opium as much as before. "After he separated from his wife, she cleaned up his household Sundries, in addition to pornographic reading materials were found in the box, a tube of opium cream was also found. The poet Shelley also had an addiction to opium, which he claimed was a cure for headaches.the ill-fated poet keats also smoked The habit of opiates.If you don't take opium, you will be mentally unstable and unable to write.He was deeply troubled by this phenomenon, I have repeatedly mentioned this to my friends in letters. The well-known short essay writer Lan Bo, he smoked opium, but to cure the cold. "Saxon" Shi Gede, the author of "The Heroes After the Catastrophe", had to take opium due to frequent stomach pains.he said himself Doesn't like opium, but in order to write, he has to take opium to rest himself. The same is true of the novelist Dickens. In order to get sleep, he often takes crows before going to sleep. piece.In 1867, when he traveled to the United States to give lectures, he also carried opium cream in his suitcase. Mrs. Browning, a famous poetess at that time, was given by a doctor when she was a girl before she got married. She was given opium.After marrying Browning, she still couldn't get rid of this habit, so she was jealous of her poetic talent. Some people blamed her for Wen, saying that her poems were not the real products of her talent, but were stimulated by opium, Just as horse races were previously doped to win. Of course, apart from Britain, other foreign writers also smoked opium at this time.Because of the pursuit of the officer The enjoyment of energy is a kind of epidemic disease in the literary world of the nineteenth century.In this regard, the so-called devil poet French Baudelaire and American mystical poet Edgar Allan Poe are all famous writers who were addicted to opium.