The Pleasures of Imagination

Name: The Pleasures of Imagination
Author: Mark Akenside

by Mark Akenside

Philosophical poem exploring imagination as path to transcendence and enlightenment

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Mark Akenside

English 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.

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