This author wrote about dreams in which Mater Lachrymarum, Mater Suspiriorum, and Mater Tenebrarum appeared before him along with the Roman goddess of childbirth.
One work by this author compares the Christian idea of original sin with a story from the Arabian Nights of a princess who let a genie escape by failing to eat one seed of a pomegranate. In another of his works, the bas-relief of a Dying Trumpeter comes to life and freezes the narrator in time to prevent him, riding through the graveyard of Campo Santo, from crashing into a young girl. This author wrote about dreams in which Mater Lachrymarum, Mater Suspiriorum, and Mater Tenebrarum appeared before him along with the Roman goddess of childbirth. A so-called "Dream-Fugue" concludes one of his writings, which opens by extolling "The (*) Glory of Motion." This author of "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow" satirically compared John Williams to "Michelangelo in painting" in a piece purporting to be a "found" lecture given at an analogue to the Hellfire Club. For 10 points, name this essayist of Suspiria De Profundis, "The English Mail-Coach", and "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge who wrote Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
One work by this author compares the Christian idea of original sin with a story from the Arabian Nights of a princess who let a genie escape by failing to eat one seed of a pomegranate.
Thomas Penson de Quincey