Charles Bucke

On the Life, Writings, and Genius of Akenside: with Some Account of His Friends Charles Bucke

Having always esteemed the Pleasures of Imagination the finest didactic Poem in our language, it was with no small pleasure, that I accidentally discovered, some time since, a few MS, notes of A kenside at the British Museum. These notes are not very important; but they led me to regret, as, indeed, I had often done before, that all the accounts, we have, of this great poet, should be so meagre and deficient: and having formerly known two gentlemen, who had been intimately acquainted with him, I combined what I had heard them say of him with what was already known ;and taking his works for a general guide (and few speak more in their works than A kenside does) I have, I hope, been enabled to give a correct and, perhaps, not altogether an uninteresting outline of a virtuous and high-minded man, gifted with very considerable poetical powers.
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