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graveyard school 18th-century school of English poets who wrote primarily about human mortality. Often set in a graveyard, their poems mused on the vicissitudes of life, the solitude of death and the grave, and the anguish of bereavement. Their air of pensive gloom presaged the melancholy of the romantic movement. The most famous graveyard poems were Robert Blair's The Grave (1743), Edward Young's nine-volume The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality (1742-45), and Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1750).

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	Thomas Gray: A Life.(Review)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 6/22/2001; ; 263 words ; ...down congested modem motorways to St. Giles, the site of Gray's tomb and probable inspiration for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, in an attempt to form a concrete link between present and past, a paradigm for Mack's larger intentions. If the poetry... Read more
	Antiques. Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 6/1/2004; ; 570 words ; ...stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 1751 The physical legacy of the first four kings George is one of elegant design and craftsmanship rarely achieved since... Read more
	Jacko's comeback is not such a thriller. Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England); 11/16/2006; 188 words ; ...Michael Jackson's first UK stage appearance in nine years fell flat. The fallen King Of Pop had been set to recreate his famous graveyard Thriller video at the World Music Awards. But instead he joined a group of youngsters on stage at Earls Court to sing only... Read more
	Authors keen to record war heroes' stories. Newspaper article from: Petersfield Post (Petersfield, England); 6/20/2007; 451 words ; One name is engraved on a war memorial in a country churchyard near Petersfield, the other is carved on a memorial in a Dutch village. They are just two individuals among the hundreds of thousands... Read more
	Tragedy of Captain William Leslie & Dr. Benjamin Rush. Magazine article from: The Loyalist Gazette; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; The grave of Captain the Hon. William Leslie, second son of David, 6th Earl of Leven, is in a picturesque country churchyard. From time to time, despite the passing of two centuries, the young soldier still receives tributes of flowers and... Read more
	(book reviews) Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...conceptualize history. (pp. 3, 4) Starting from this assumption Schor argues that mourning, as represented in Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard and the poetry of Wordsworth, was a crucial experience through which the British of the late eighteenth century learned... Read more
	Inglorious wordsworths.(FEATURE ARTICLE)(Critical essay) Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...20-year-old head. Disentangling the title a little will be germane to our discussion here. In Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the poet muses upon the undeveloped potentialities of the obscure bumpkins buried all around him; poor and isolated country... Read more
	ANGER AS 'UNSAFE' TREES DESTROYED. Newspaper article from: Sussex Express Series (Lewes, England); 2/16/2007; 356 words ; ...for everything but none of them make any sense. 'Trees in these surroundings are part of the quintessential fabric of a country churchyard and should be preserved at all costs.' One of the yews would have been a mature tree when the bells rang out to celebrate... Read more
	Stunts & consequences. Magazine article from: New Criterion; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Gray without a pang, if it means that children are going to grow up without ever having heard of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard --and where else are they likely to come across it nowadays if not at school? It should be stressed that none of these... Read more
	Continuity. Magazine article from: Quadrant; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...possible, in the country, to follow a more leisurely pace. The stately eighteenth-century tempo of Thomas Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard ( ... the lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The ploughman homeward plods his weary way .. Read more

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	Lewis, Wendy A. 1966- Book article from: Something About the Author ...Another character grieves as his sister battles cancer. "Graveyard Girl" herself is haunted by her past and by her lasting...In her Booklist review, Anne O'Malley concluded of Graveyard Girl: "The characters are compelling and the stories...Booklist , January 1, 2001, Anne O'Malley, review of Graveyard ... Read more
	Blair, Robert Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Blair, Robert (1699–1746), published in 1743 The Grave , a didactic poem of the graveyard school, consisting of some 800 lines of blank verse. It celebrates the horrors of death, the solitude of the tomb, the pains of bereavement. It was illustrated by Blake . Read more
	Waits, Tom Book article from: Contemporary Musicians ...the poet of the downtrodden, entertains listeners with his graveyard-growl voice, sophisticated lyrics and melodies, and haunting...both of his parents were schoolteachers, Waits considered high school a joke and dropped out to join the work force. “ I listened... Read more
	Sprague, Charles Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...work ranges from the influence of Collins and Gray, in his Shakespeare Ode , through the sentimentalized vein of the graveyard school in The Funeral and a simple statement of deism in The Winged Worshippers to the homely sincerity of The Brothers... Read more
	Hervey, James Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Hervey, James (1714–58), was prominent in the early Methodist movements. His prose poems Meditations among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower Garden , etc. (1746–7) bear some affinity to the works of the graveyard school. Read more

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