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Item Details
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SELECTED POETRY
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| By: |
Mark Akenside |
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Paperback |
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£9.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0856359270 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780856359279 |
| Publisher: |
CARCANET PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
18 February, 1994 |
| Series: |
Fyfield Books |
| Pages: |
180 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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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