Many artists used Laudanum

Many artists used Laudanum. Some notable literary figures include: Edgar Allan Poe; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who miserably battled his addiction for much of his adult life; Thomas de Quincey, who turned his addiction into literary success with the publication of Confessions of an English Opium Eater; Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley, who suffered raging laudanum-induced hallucinations; Iolo Morgannwg, the Welsh antiquarian; Charles Dickens; and Charles Baudelaire[citation needed