AKENSIDE, MARK

AKENSIDE, MARK
   an English physician, who wrote, among other productions and pieces, the "Hymn to the Naiads," especially a poem entitled the "Pleasures of Imagination," much quoted from at one time, and suggested by the study of Addison on the Imagination in the Spectator (1721-1770).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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