Abstract
DR. Johnson heard the publisher, Dodsley, relate that when Pope was shown a copy of Akenside's The Pleasures of Imagination, he said Akenside was no ordinary poet, and advised Dodsley not to make a niggardly offer for the poem. This didactic poem in blank verse was inspired by Addison's essays on the imagination. It was considered a work of genius by some and immediately established its author's reputation as a poet. The various lives of Akenside1 2 3 4 5 have stressed his poetical attributes, and his poetry has been thoroughly analyzed, even meriting a doctoral dissertation.3 His medical contributions, however, deserve more notice . . .
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