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Mark Akenside

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Mark Akenside , 1721-70, English poet and physician. His chief literary work was the didactic poem The Pleasures of Imagination (1744). Among his other works are the neoclassical Odes on Various Subjects (1745) and the Epistle to Curio (1744), a vigorous political satire. Akenside's conversion to Tory principles at the accession of George III earned him the appointment of physician to the queen.

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Akenside, Mark (1721–70), author of Pleasures of Imagination (1744). His ‘Hymn to the Naiads’, written in 1746 and published in Dodsley's Collection of Poems (1758), is a dazzling display of classical erudition, and other poems reveal his keen interest in the scientific theories of the Enlightenment.

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