title: Digenis Akritis (Cambridge Medieval Classics)
author: Jeffreys
description: "This edition for the first time makes this challenging medieval text fully accessible to medievalists beyond te specialisms of Byzantine or modern Greek studies and will surely remain standard for many years to come." Speculum
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  Akenside
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  Title:	Poetical	Works	of	Akenside
  Author:	Mark	Akenside
  Editor:	George	Gilfillan
  Posting	Date:	November	3,	2011	[EBook	#9814]	Release	Date:	February,	2006
  First	Posted:	October	20,	2003
  Language:	English
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  THE
  POETICAL	WORKS
  OF
  MARK	AKENSIDE.
  REV.	GEORGE	GILFILLAN.
  THE	LIFE	OF	AKENSIDE.
  Mark	Akenside	was	born	at	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	on	the	9th	of	November	1721.
  His	family	were	Presbyterian	Dissenters,	and	on	the	30th	of	that	month	he	was
  baptized	in	the	meeting,	then	held	in	Hanover	Square,	by	a	Mr.	Benjamin
  Benn