The Pleasures Of Imagination

Akenside, Mark

History

Franklin Classics

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Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Ams Pr Inc

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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer

Dyer, John

History & Criticism

Kessinger Publishing

The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

This is an edition of all the known poems of Mark Akenside, the eighteenth-century English poet and physician, whose poetry has not been newly edited for more than a century. This edition will thus provide scholars and students with a much-needed opportunity to reassess the extent of Akenside's contribution to literary culture, and it will also clarify his role in the development of the aesthetic theories of his own generation and the one that followed.The career of Mark Akenside (1721-70) spans a period of extraordinarily fast change in English literature: his first major poem, The Pleasures of Imagination, appeared in the year of Pope's death; and Akenside died in the year Wordsworth was born. His works not only reflected the very considerable changes that took place during these years; they also contributed in many ways to the shifts in focus, interest, and emphasis that characterize the literature of the later eighteenth century.Akenside's fascination with the imagination, its characteristics and functions, resulted in an intriguing and influential blend of the poetic and the philosophical in his longer poems, The Pleasures of Imagination (1744) and The Pleasures of the Imagination (1772). The earlier work explores the then new subject of aesthetics in greater detail than it had ever been explored before, presenting various original insights and arguments. Yet it would be wrong to see the poem as merely a versified philosophical treatise; its complex structure offers satisfactions beyond those of sequential logic, and the examples cited to illustrate the central ideas are imbued with considerable vigor and clarity. As products of, and contributors to, the eighteenth-century enthusiasm for aesthetics, Akenside's longer poems are captivating examples of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiment in developing the philosophical poem into a major literary form. It is for this reason above all others that they are valued by Coleridge and the writers of the next generation.Because of the comparative obscurity into which Akenside's works fell after the demise of the long philosophical poem in the latter part of the nineteenth century, they have not by and large attracted the attention of modern bibliographers. In this edition numerous bibliographical and textual puzzles presented by his poems are solved for the first time. The apparatus, meanwhile, demonstrates the full extent of the poet's urge to revise - an urge that extended from the wholesale rewriting of some poems to subtle alterations of textual minutiae, showing a mind and an ear alive to nuances of meaning and intonation.

UNKNO

Three poets of sensibility, each highly esteemed and hugely influential in his time, are brought together in this single volume, the first representative selection to appear in many decades.Mark Akenside (1721-70) wrote Pleasures of the Imagination, described by Dr Johnson as 'an example of the great felicity of genius'. James Macpherson (1736-96) wrote the alleged translations from the Gaelic of the poet Ossian, the seminal literary forgery of the century which agitated critics for generations after and helped popularise Celtic myth. Edward Young (1683-1765) remains the best-known of the three; his Night Thoughts, published in the 1740s, were popular throughout Europe for a century and contributed as did the work of the other two - to the rise of Romanticism.

Mark Akenside, James MacPherson and Edward Young: Selected Poetry (Rusi Whitehall Paper Series,)

Carcanet Press

Akenside 1721-1770 was a well known English poet. Has a note by John Lancaster, Curator. Covers soiled and slightly curled around edges. 8 pages followed by the facsimiles of 8 manuscripts. stiff paper wrappers.. 4to..

The Poetical Manuscripts of Mark Akenside in the Ralph M. Williams Collection, Amherst College Library: Reproduced in Facsimile

Amherst College Pr

The Pleasures Of Imagination: To Which Is Prefixed A Critical Essay On The Poem (1818)

British & Irish

The Poems Of The Pleasures: Consisting Of The Pleasures Of Imagination, The Pleasures Of Memory, The Pleasures Of Hope, And The Pleasures Of Friendship (1841)

Campbell, Thomas

Rogers, Samuel

Literary

The Poetical Works Of Mark Akenside (1857)

The Poetical Works Of Mark Akenside V1-2 (1805)

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