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.
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