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The Graveyard Poets

•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 . •"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 . •At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's #Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard , Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece On #Death ", Robert Blair's #The_Grave , and Edward Young's #Night -Thoughts •The term itself was not used as a brand for the poets and their poetry until #William_Macneil...