Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, Romanticism

di Chris Townsend (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2022

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, 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'.

• Autore: Chris Townsend
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 75 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 118 gr.
• EAN: 9781009222976

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