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Akenside, engraving by E. Fisher, 1772, after a painting by A. Pond, 1754
Akenside, engraving by E. Fisher, 1772, after a painting by A. Pond, 1754

Mark Akenside

British poet and physician
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Mark Akenside (born Nov. 9, 1721, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, Eng.ā€”died June 23, 1770, London) was a poet and physician, best known for his poem The Pleasures of Imagination, an eclectic philosophical essay that takes as its starting point papers on the same subject written by Joseph Addison for The Spectator. Written in blank verse derived from Miltonā€™s, it was modelled (as its preface states) on the Roman poets Virgil (the Georgics) and Horace (the...

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