| Front | Graveyard poets |
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| Back | 1740s 50s Thomas parnell's Night piece on Death 1721 Robert Blair's the Grave 1743 Edward Young's Night Thoughts 1742 6 James Hervey's prose Meditations among the tombs 1746 7 Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in 1751 The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets", were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms" elicited by the presence of the graveyard. Moving beyond the elegy lamenting a single death, their purpose was rarely sensationalist. As the century progressed, "graveyard" poetry increasingly expressed a feeling for the "sublime" and uncanny, and an antiquarian interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry. The "graveyard poets" are often recognized as precursors of the Gothic literary genre, as well as the Romantic movement. |
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