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Title	A critical edition of the odes of Mark Akenside, M.D
Author	Peters, Helen, 1942-
Description	Thesis (M.A.)-- Memorial University of Newfoundland. English Language and Literature
Date	1972.
Pagination	158 leaves : ill.
Subject	Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770--Criticism and interpretation;
Degree	M.A.
Degree Grantor	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of English Language and Literature
Discipline	English Language and Literature
Language	eng
Contributors	Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770.
Notes	Bibliography: leaves 156-158.
Abstract	This thesis presents a critical edition of the Odes of Mark Akenside based on the official posthumous edition of his collected poetic works, as edited by his friend Jeremiah Dyson in 1772. Two odes, not included in Dyson's edition, one in The Gentleman ‘s Magazine (1739) the other in John Garnett's New Brunswick edition of Akenside's works (1808), have been attributed to the poet by several of his biographers and are included in the present text. Of the odes published by Dyson, roughly half are presented in their final-revised forms but had been published previously in earlier versions. This edition, therefore, also presents in the textual apparatus the earlier substantive authorial variants of these odes in a manner designed to allow reconstruction of the earlier versions. -- The Introduction discusses Akenside ‘s use of the ode form, particularly his attempt to imitate classical models in Neo-classic idiom and conventions. In the discussion, the recent tradition of Akenside criticism, based largely on "The Pleasures of Imagination" and the poet's alleged pre-Romantic tendencies, is dismissed as having little bearing on the Odes, for the study of these poems reveals him as a practitioner of an established tradition rather than as an innovator of a new form of poetry. -- The second part of the Introduction discusses the nature of his revisions, some of which show his struggle to compose English odes based on classical models in accordance with the diction and decorum of the Augustans; others are of a kind common to all poets who habitually reworked their poems. Revision is widespread in a surprisingly large number of authors, and, as such information is of importance in the study of literary works, this thesis has as one of its principal concerns the devising of editorial procedures to reflect the complexity of the textual evidence in one revising poet.
Type	Text
Resource Type	Electronic thesis or dissertation
Format	Image/jpg; Application/pdf
Source	Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier	76005547
Rights	The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection	Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scanning Status	Completed
PDF File	(22.97 MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/theses/Peters_Helen.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	147944.cpd