Eighteenth-century Stoic poetics : : Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the discipline of the imagination / / by Alexandra Bacalu.

"Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century poetics of Lord Shaftesbury and Mark Akenside. This book traces the two authors' debt to Roman Stoic spiritual exercises and early modern con...

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