Confesiones de un comedor de opio inglés by Thomas de Quincey

He speaks about his elitist and strict education that provided him a deep knowledge of Greco-Roman culture (he granted mythical dimension to the prosaic news published at those times by the press when he translated into Classic Greek) his escape from a home where nothing was missing his survival under a savior-minded prostitute who perhaps sensed in him the dilettante who began his life journey with a Greek grammar his prolific opium addiction -legally allowed in whole Europe at that time- to fight, he says, against neuralgia, or to exorcise his deepest nightmares, he insinuates his intimacy with Coleridge to whom seemed to admire and detest in equal measure his fickle raids into the circle of Lake Poets his productive partnership with Margaret Simpson with whom he had eight children and his exhausting work as a journalist, editor, columnist, critic, short story writer to feed them in a more than ever Dickensian London, in where his contemporary Swift proposed to eat one’s children as a solution to the problems of overcrowding the years, well, he hid from a crowd of creditors to finally give them the pleasure of die in the most desolate poverty.

Confesiones de un comedor de opio inglés by Thomas de Quincey