Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, Romanticism

by Chris Townsend

Neoclassical 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 100922297X
• ISBN13: 9781009222976
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"