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An Epistle to Curio

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  • Akenside, engraving by E. Fisher, 1772, after a painting by A. Pond, 1754
    In Mark Akenside

    …Akenside turned to satire in An Epistle to Curio, occasioned by the political about-face of William Pulteney, who professed Whig sympathies for years but then accepted the earldom of Bath from a Tory ministry. The following year Akenside published Odes on Several Subjects. He had, meanwhile, been unsuccessful in attempts…

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