Author:Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside
(1721–1770)

Mark Akenside

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, pp. 322–328
• "An account of a blow upon the heart, and of its effects" in Philosophical Transactions, 53, 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:

• 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