Mark Akenside (November 9, 1721 - June 23, 1770) was a British poet and doctor.
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Biography
Akenside was born in Newcastle in Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly paralyzed all his life from the wounds he received as a child from his father's machetes. All his connections were Dissenters, and, after attending the Royal Free Grammar School of Newcastle, and a college disagreeing in the city, he was sent in 1739 to the University of Edinburgh to study theology in order to become a minister, his expenses being paid out of a special fund set aside by the community who disagreed for their pastor's education. He has contributed The Virtuoso, imitating Spenser's style and stanza 1737 to Gentleman's Magazine, and in 1738 A British Philippic, caused by the contempt of the Spaniards, and the current War Preparation (also published separately).
After one winter as a theology student, Akenside turned into medicine as his field of study. He paid back the money he had advanced for his theological studies, and became a deist. Politics, said Dr. Samuel Johnson, characterized by "a hasty desire to subvert and shame, with very little care what will be set," and his caricature at Tobias Smollett's republican doctor The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle He was elected as a member Edinburgh Medical Society in 1740. His ambition was already outside his profession, and his gift as a speaker made him hope one day to enter Parliament. In 1740, he printed his book Ode on the Winter Solstice in a small volume of poetry. In 1741, he left Edinburgh for Newcastle and began calling himself a surgeon, although it was doubtful whether he practiced, and from the following year the date of his lifelong friendship with Jeremiah Dyson (1722-1776).
During a visit to Morpeth in 1738, Akenside had the idea for didactic poetry, The Pleasures of the Imagination , which was well received and then described as 'very beautiful in the richness of descriptions and languages', and also later translated into in more than one foreign language. He had gained a considerable literary reputation when he came to London about the end of 1743 and offered a job to Robert Dodsley for Ã, Â £ 120. Dodsley considered the exorbitant prices, and accepted only the requirement after submitting the manuscript to Alexander Pope, who assured him that this " not everyday writers ". These three books of poetry appeared in January 1744. The purpose, Akenside tells us in the preface, is "not so much to give formal teaching, or enter the path of direct argumentation, as, by showing the most interesting prospects of nature, to enlarge and aligning the imagination, and in that way indirectly throwing men's minds into the same tastes and habits of thought in religion, morals and civil life ". His power did not achieve this ambition; his imagination is not brilliant enough to overcome the difficulties that exist in poetry that are largely related to abstraction; but the job was well received. Thomas Gray wrote to Thomas Warton that the book was "on top of the pile," but "often unclear and unintelligible and infected with Hutchinson jargon".
William Warburton was offended by a note added by Akenside on the part in the third book related to mockery. Therefore he attacked the author of Imagination Pleasure - published anonymously - in a scathing preface to Description on Some Reflections Occasionally, in answer to Dr Middleton... (1744 ). This is answered, nominally by Dyson, in Letters to Pdt. Mr Warburton, where Akenside may have a hand. It was in the media when he left England in 1744 to obtain a medical degree in Leiden. In less than a month he has completed the required dissertation, De ortu et incremento fetus humani , and received the diploma.
Back in the UK, Akenside failed to try to establish a practice in Northampton. In 1744, he published his book Epistle to Curio, attacking William Pulteney (after the Earl of Bath) for abandoning his liberal principle to be a supporter of the government, and in the following year he produced a small volume. from Odes on Some Subjects , in the introduction that he claims to claim the truth and careful study of the best models. Her friend Dyson meanwhile left the bar, and has become, with a purchase, an officer to the House of Commons. Akenside came to London and tried to train at Hampstead. Dyson brought a house there, and did all he could to advance his friend's interest in the neighborhood. However, Akenside's arrogance and ingenuity thwarted these efforts, and Dyson then brought a home for him in Bloomsbury Square, making him independent of his profession with an allowance of £ 300 per year, but probably larger, because it confirms that this revenue allowing him to "guard the train," and "incomparably good" life. In 1746 he wrote his much-praised "Hymn to the Naiads", and he also became a contributor of the Museum, or Literature and Dodsley List History. He is now twenty-five years old, and began to devote himself almost exclusively to his profession. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
He is an acute and educated physician. He confessed to the MD at the University of Cambridge in 1753, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1754, and the fourth sensor in 1755. In June 1755 he read the Gulstonian lectures before the College, in September 1756 Lecture in Croatia, and in 1759 Harveian Oration. In January 1759 he was appointed as a physician's assistant, and two months later the chief physician to Christ's Hospital, but he was charged with harsh treatment of a poorer patient, and his unsympathetic character hindered the success on which his learning and his undeniable ability gave him the right to him. At the accession of George III both Dyson and Akenside changed their political opinion, and Akenside's conversion to Tory principles was rewarded by the appointment of a physician to the queen. Dyson became secretary of treasurer, treasurer of the treasury, and in 1774 council and cofferer for the household.
Akenside died at his home in Burlington Street, where he lived starting in 1762. His friendship with Dyson put his character in the most gracious light. Writing to his friends since 1744, Akenside says that intimacy has "an extra strength of conscience, a new religious principle", and there seems to be no break in their affection. He abandoned all the effects and remnants of literature to Dyson, who published his poetry edition in 1772. This included a revised version of the Imagination Pleasure, in which the author was involved in his death.
The Akenside verse is better when it is subject to heavier metric rules. His views are rarely lyrical in the narrow sense, but they are very dignified and often musical. In 1911 his work was slightly readable. Edmund Gosse described it as "a sort of frozen Keats".
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Work
The best edition of Aketide's Poetical Works was prepared (1834) by Alexander Dyce for the Aldine Edition of the English Poet, and reprinted with a small addition in the next edition of the series. See Dyce's Life of Akenside preceded for edition, also Life of the Poets of Johnson, and Life, Writing and Genius Akenside (1832) by Charles Bucke.
The authoritative edition of Aketide Poetical Works is prepared by Robin Dix (1996). An important edition was previously prepared by Alexander Dyce (1834) for the Aldine Edition of the English poet, and reprinted with a small addition in the next edition of the series. See Dyce's Life of Akenside beginning for its edition, as well as Johnson's Lives of the Poets, and the Life, Writings and Genius of Akenside (1832 ) by Charles Bucke.
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- This article incorporates text from publications now in the public domain: Ã, Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Akenside, Mark". EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica (issue 11). Cambridge University Press. Editnotes:
External links
- Mark Akenside in the Eighteenth Poetry Archive (ECPA)
- Mark Akenside's work on Project Gutenberg
- Works based on or about Mark Akenside in the Internet Archive
- Works by Mark Akenside on LibriVox (public domain audiobook)
- Works by Mark Akenside in the Open Library
- Index entry for Mark Akenside in Poets' Corner
- Akenside Fun imagination: a poem, in three books , New York, 1795.
- Mark Akenside at Toronto University Library
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