Opis: Poetical Works (Classic Reprint) - Akenside Mark

Excerpt from Poetical Works

Mark Akenside was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 9th of November 1721. His family were Presbyterian Disenters, and on the 30th of that month he was baptized in the meeting, then held in Hanover Square, by a Mr Benjamin Bennet. His father, Mark, was a butcher in respectable circumstances - his mother's name was Mary Lumsden. There may seem something grotesque in finding the author of the "Pleasures of Imagination" born in a place usually thought so anti-poetical as butcher's shop. And yet similar anomalies abound in the histories of men of genius. Henry Kirke White, too, was a butcher's son, and for some time carried his father's basket. The late Thomas Atkinson, a very clever littrateur of the West of Scotland, was also what the Scotch call a "flesher's" son. The case of Cardinal Wolsey is well known. Indeed, we do not understand why any decent calling should be inimical to the existence - however it may be to the adequate development - of genius. That is a spark of supernal inspiration, lighting where it pleases, often conforming, and always striving to conform, circumstances to itself, and sometimes even strengthened and purified by the contradictions it meets in life. Nay, genius has sprung up in stranger quarters than in butcher's shops or tailor's attics - it has lived and flourished in the dens of robbers, and in the gross and fetid atmosphere of taverns.

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Szczegóły: Poetical Works (Classic Reprint) - Akenside Mark

Nazwa: Poetical Works (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Akenside Mark
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330654477
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 454
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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