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OverviewNeoclassical and Romantic verse cultures are often assumed to sit in an oppositional relationship to one another, with the latter amounting to a hostile reaction against the former. But there are in fact a good deal of continuities between the two movements, ones that strike at the heart of the evolution of verse forms in the period. This Element proposes that the mid-eighteenth-century poet Mark Akenside, and his hugely influential Pleasures of Imagination, represent a case study in the deep connections between Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Akenside's poem offers a vital illustration of how verse was a rival to philosophy in the period, offering a new perspective on philosophic problems of appearance, or how the world 'seems to be'. What results from this is a poetic form of knowing: one that foregrounds feeling over fact, that connects Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and that Akenside called the imagination's 'pleasures'. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chris Townsend (Christ's College, Cambridge)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.10cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.120kg ISBN: 9781009222976ISBN 10: 100922297 Pages: 75 Publication Date: 19 May 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction, or 'The Design'; 1. Philosophic Backgrounds: Pope's Essay and Akenside; 2. 'Appearances in the World Around Us': Akenside and the Way Things Seem to Be; 3. 'There to read the transcript of Himself': Coleridge, Akenside, and the Esemplastic Imagination; 4. Akenside's Romanticism: Wordsworth, Keats, and Imaginative Pleasures; Conclusion: Things Connected.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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