The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside
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Mark Akenside (1721-1770), was an English poet and physician. He was sent in 1739 to Edinburgh to study theology with a view to becoming a minister. After one winter as a theology student, he changed to medicine. In 1740 he became a deist, was elected a member of the Medical Society of Edinburgh and printed his Ode on the Winter Solstice in a small volume of poems. During a visit to Morpeth he had the idea for his didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744) which was well received, and was translated into many languages. In 1745 appeared his Odes on Several Subjects and in 1746 he w...
Chapters (199)
- THE
- REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.
- THE LIFE OF AKENSIDE.
- CONTENTS.
- THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION.
- THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION.
- ODES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS:—
- Book II.—
- HYMN TO THE NAIADS.
- INSCRIPTIONS:—
- AN EPISTLE TO CURIO.
- AKENSIDE'S POETICAL WORKS.
- THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION.
- THE DESIGN.
- BOOK I.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK II.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK III.
- ARGUMENT.
- NOTES
- BOOK FIRST. ENDNOTE A.
- ENDNOTE B.
- ENDNOTE C.
- ENDNOTE D.
- ENDNOTE E.
- ENDNOTE F.
- ENDNOTE G.
- ENDNOTE H.
- ENDNOTE I.
- ENDNOTE J.
- ENDNOTE K.
- BOOK SECOND. ENDNOTE L
- ENDNOTE M.
- ENDNOTE N.
- ENDNOTE O.
- ENDNOTE P.
- ENDNOTE Q.
- ENDNOTE R.
- ENDNOTE S.
- BOOK THIRD.
- ENDNOTE AA.
- ENDNOTE BB.
- ENDNOTE CC.
- ENDNOTE DD.
- ENDNOTE EE.
- ENDNOTE FF.
- ENDNOTE GG.
- ENDNOTE HH.
- ENDNOTE II.
- ENDNOTE JJ.
- ENDNOTE KK.
- ENDNOTE LL.
- ENDNOTE MM.
- THE
- A POEM.
- BOOK I. 1757.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK II. 1765.
- ARGUMENT.
- BOOK III. 1770.
- THE BEGINNING OF THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION, 1770.
- ODES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS, IN TWO BOOKS.
- ODE I.
- ODE II.
- FOR THE WINTER SOLSTICE, DECEMBER 11, 1740. AS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN.
- ODE III.
- ODE IV.
- ODE V.
- ODE VI.
- ODE VII.
- ODE VIII.
- ODE IX.
- ODE X.
- ODE XI.
- ODE XII.
- ODE XIII.
- I.—1.
- I.—2.
- I.—3.
- II.—1.
- II.—2.
- II.—3.
- III.—3.
- IV.—1.
- IV.—2.
- IV.—3.
- ODE XIV.
- ODE XV.
- ODE XVI.
- ODE XVII.
- ODE XVIII.
- I.—1.
- I.—3.
- II.—1.
- II.—2.
- III.—1.
- III.—2.
- III.—3.
- IV.—1.
- IV.—2.
- IV.—3.
- V.—1.
- V.—2.
- V.—3.
- VI.—1.
- VI.—2.
- VI.—3.
- BOOK II.
- ODE I.
- ODE II.
- TO SLEEP.
- ODE III.
- TO THE CUCKOO.
- ODE IV.
- I.—1.
- I.—2.
- I.—3.
- II.—1.
- II.—2.
- II.—3.
- III.—1.
- III.—2.
- III.—3.
- IV.—1.
- IV.—2.
- IV.—3.
- V.—1.
- V.—2.
- V.—3.
- VI.—1.
- VI.—2.
- VI.—3.
- ODE V.
- ODE VI.
- ODE VII.
- I.—2.
- I.—3.
- II.—1.
- II.—2.
- II.-3.
- III.—1.
- III.—2.
- III.—3.
- ODE VIII.
- ODE IX.
- ODE X.
- ODE XI.
- ODE XII.
- ODE XIII.
- ODE XIV.
- ODE XV.
- NOTES.
- BOOK FIRST.
- STANZA II.—3.
- STANZA III.—3.
- STANZA IV.—3.
- STANZA V.—3.
- BOOK SECOND.
- ODE X. STANZA V.
- ODE XIII.
- HYMN TO THE NAIADS. 1746.
- ARGUMENT.
- NOTES.
- NOTE I.
- NOTE J.
- NOTE K.
- NOTE L.
- NOTE M.
- NOTE N.
- NOTE O.
- NOTE S.
- NOTE U.
- NOTE EE.
- NOTE FF.
- NOTE GG.
- NOTE HH.
- NOTE II.
- INSCRIPTIONS.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- THE WOOD NYMPH.
- VIII.
- IX.
- AN EPISTLE TO CURIO. [1]
- THE VIRTUOSO.
- AMBITION AND CONTENT.
- THE POET. A RHAPSODY.
- A BRITISH PHILIPPIC.
- HYMN TO SCIENCE.
- LOVE. AN ELEGY.
- TO CORDELIA.
- SONG.
- END OF AKENSIDE'S POETICAL WORKS.
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