Introduction, or 'The Design'; 1. Philosophic Backgrounds: Pope's Essay and Akenside; 2. 'Appearances in the World Around Us': Akenside and the Way Things Seem to Be; 3. 'There to read the transcript of Himself': Coleridge, Akenside, and the Esemplastic Imagination; 4. Akenside's Romanticism: Wordsworth, Keats, and Imaginative Pleasures; Conclusion: Things Connected.