graveyard poets

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 403 words | Copyright

graveyard poets, a term applied to 18th-cent. poets who wrote melancholy, reflective works, often set in graveyards, on the theme of human mortality. Examples include T. Parnell's ‘Night-Piece on Death’ (1721), E. Young's Night Thoughts (1742), R. Blair's The Grave (1743), and Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard (1751), the best-known product of this kind of sensibility.

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