The Literary Career of Mark Akenside: Including an Edition of His Non-medical Prose

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2006 - 410 Seiten
Mark Akenside (1720-1770) has in recent years increasingly come to be recognized as one of the most important and original poets writing in the decades after the death of Pope. The growing appreciation of his achievement was accelerated by the 1996 publication of Robin Dix's edition of his poetical works, and by a volume of critical essays by various authors, Mark Akenside: A Reassessment, in 2000. Now, in the first book-length study devoted exclusively to his writing since C. T. Houpt's 1944 critical biography, Robin Dix examines the full range of Akenside's literary achievements. The rich intellectual and poetic background to his work that this detailed treatment reveals, permits important new insights into the nature of his originality, and of originality in general. Dix's critical analysis is supplemented by the first full edition of Akenside's non-medical prose.

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List of Illustrations
9
Acknowledgments
11
References and Abbreviations
11
Introduction
15
The Start of Akensides Career
25
The Pleasures of Imagination
65
Continuing Development
137
Changing Priorities 17501770
201
Akensides Prose
257
Books Reviewed in The Museum
310
Akenside as Gay Icon
313
Notes
329
Bibliography
380
Index
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Seite 83 - The flame of genius to the human breast, And love and beauty, and poetic joy And inspiration. Ere the radiant sun Sprang from the east, or 'mid the vault of night The moon suspended her serener lamp; Ere mountains, woods, or streams adorn'd the globe, Or Wisdom taught the sons of men her lore; Then lived the Almighty One...
Seite 33 - Solitude's the nurse of woe. No real happiness is found In trailing purple o'er the ground : Or in a soul exalted high, To range the circuit of the sky, Converse with stars above, and know All Nature in its forms below ; The rest it seeks, in seeking dies, And doubts at last for knowledge rise.
Seite 79 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Seite 161 - Eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
Seite 333 - Colin's Mistakes," again using his modified stanza. For a brief analysis of Croxall's political allegory, see Christine Gerrard, The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742 (Oxford, 1994), pp.
Seite 95 - The influence of the imagination on the conduct of life is one of the most important points in moral philosophy. It were easy, by an induction of facts, to prove that the imagination directs almost all the passions, and mixes with almost every circumstance of action or pleasure.
Seite 77 - Different minds Incline to different objects: one pursues The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild ; Another sighs for harmony and grace, And gentlest beauty.
Seite 129 - From things deform'd, or disarrang'd, or gross In species? This nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow, But God alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul. He, mighty parent! wise and just in all, Free as the vital breeze or light of heaven, Reveals the charms of nature.
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Seite 79 - Thus was Beauty sent from heaven, The lovely ministress of truth and good In this dark world : for truth and good are one, And Beauty dwells in them, and they in her, With like participation.

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