← Mark AkensideOdes on Several Subjectsby Mark AkensideFind on Amazon↗About the authorMark AkensideEnglish physician and poet whose The Pleasures of Imagination is an important pre-Romantic poem about aesthetic experience. He also wrote odes in imitation of Pindar.More by Mark AkensideThe Pleasures of ImaginationPhilosophical poem exploring imagination as path to transcendence and enlightenment→