Mark Akenside, an eighteenth-century Scottish poet and physician, was best known for his philosophical blank verse poem The pleasures of Imagination. He was born at newcastel-on-Tyne on the 9th of November, 1721. Akenside deserves, on account of his poems, a high place in the ranks of the British poetry. His poems are, both in substance and style, more organic, impassioned and poetic than much verse that was written in his day on trivial occasions of topical ...
