Download or read book The Life of Mark Akenside written by Barbara C. Morden and published by McNidder & Grace. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Akenside (1721–1770) was a medical doctor and literary man whose influence on the history of ideas was profound. Born the son of a butcher in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1721 Mark Akenside was awarded a degree in medicine from Edinburgh and Leyden Universities. He settled in London in 1743 where he was successful both as a doctor and in medical research. Above all, he was the author of The Pleasures of Imagination1744, an epic length poem in blank verse which broke many conventions of the time, exploring ideas about human perception and the natural world. Akenside had a European reputation and became a national celebrity. He was a major influence on first- and second-generation Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, etc. He also made an impact on the development of landscape painting in the early 19th century through his influence on J.M.W. Turner. This book examines these issues, as well as the controversy and speculation about Akenside's relationship with his origins, his sexuality, and changing political affiliations in a period of economic crisis and great social change.
Download or read book The Pleasures of the Imagination written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poems of Mark Akenside The Life of Mark Akenside by Dr Johnson The Poems of John Dyer written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside With the life of the author Embellished with superb engravings including a portrait written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Literary Career of Mark Akenside written by Robin Dix and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers the fullest critical account to date of the literary career of Mark Akenside (1721-1770). In the course of the discussion, Akenside's literary achievements and his contributions to the vibrant cultural scene of the mid-eighteenth century are amply demonstrated, as well as his intellectual originality, his inventive use of source material, and his influence on poets and philosophers in the late eighteenth century and the Romantic period."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside written by Mark Akenside and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Mark Akenside written by Robin Dix and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of Akenside criticism to be published since C. T. Houpt's biographical and critical study, which initially appeared in 1944. This important collection of essays examines the full range of Akenside's poetical output, from his earliest published work to the later odes and posthumous published poems.
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Download or read book Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth Century Britain written by Dustin Griffin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of the mid- and late-eighteenth century has long been regarded as primarily private and apolitical; in this wide-ranging study Dustin Griffin argues that in fact the poets of the period were addressing the great issues of national life--rebellion at home, imperial wars abroad, an expanding commercial empire, an emerging new British national identity. Taking up the topic of patriotic verse, Griffin shows that poets such as Thomas Gray, Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Cowper were engaged in the century-long debate about the nature of true patriotism.
Download or read book The Poems of Mark Akenside M D With a portrait written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The poetical works of Mark Akenside with memoir and critical dissertation by G Gilfillan written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer Edited by the Rev R A Willmott Illustrated by Birket Foster With Portraits written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and James Beattie written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
