Selected Poetry by Mark Akenside

Selected Poetry by Mark Akenside

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Zusammenfassung

A collection of the works of three influential 18th-century poets. Mark Akenside wrote "Pleasures of the Imagination", James MacPherson wrote the translations from the Gaelic of the fictional poet Ossian, and Edward Young wrote "Night Thoughts". All three contributed to the rise of Romanticism.

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Selected Poetry by Mark Akenside

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.
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ISBN 13 9780856359279
ISBN 10 0856359270
Titel Selected Poetry
Autor Mark Akenside
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Carcanet Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 1994-02-18
Seitenanzahl 180
Hinweis auf dem Einband Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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