Author:Mark Akenside

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Mark Akenside
(1721–1770)

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English poet and physician

Works

Dissertatio de Ortu et Incremento Fœtus Humani (1744)
"Observations on the Origin and Use of the Lymphatic Vessels of Animals" in Philosophical Transactions, 50 (1758), pp. 322–328
"An account of a blow upon the heart, and of its effects" in Philosophical Transactions, 53 (1763), pp. 353–355
Oratio anniversaria, quam ex Harveii instituto in theatro Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis die Octobris 18 a MDCCLIX (1760)
De Dysenteria Commentarius (1764)

A commentary on the dysentery: or, bloody flux (1767), translated from the original Latin by John Ryan (external scan)

Poetry

The Virtuoso, the ‘Gentleman's Magazine.’ (23 April 1737)
A British Philippic (1738)
On the Winter Solstice (1740)
An Epistle to the Rev. Mr. Warburton (1744)
An Epistle to Curio (1744)
The Pleasures of Imagination; a poem in three books (1744)
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)
An Ode to the Right Honourable the Earl of Huntingdon (1748) (transcription project)
The Remonstrance of Shakespeare (1749)
An Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England (1758) (transcription project)
Call to Aristippus (1758)
Ode to the late Thomas Edwards (1766)
The poetical works of Mark Akenside (1854), edited by Alexander Dyce (external scan)

Anthologized:

"The Winter-Solstice", in A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, That Have Appeared for Several Years (1767)

In Poems and Extracts by William Wordsworth (1905):
"Me though in life's sequestered vale"

"Inscription" (For a Grotto) ("To me who in their lays the shepherds call")

"Throned on the sun's descending car

"Inscription" ("Whoe'er thou art whose path in summer lies")

Works about Akenside

"Akenside" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, pp.407-418.
"Akenside, Mark," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 1) (1878)
"Akenside, Mark," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Akenside, Mark," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Akenside, Mark," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Akenside, Mark," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
“Akenside, Mark”, in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York, 1920

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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