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	Zittaw Press: Purveyors of the Trade Gothic
		Graveyard poetry flourished in the first half of the Eighteenth Century and continued the ground work which would eventually become the Gothic.
		While reveling in the images of death and the horrors of the grave, the principle goal of the graveyard school was to glory in the spiritual end that the tomb represented by turning the trappings of death into objects of aesthetic appreciation.
		Several Graveyard poets are represented here but more work is required to bring these poets from the gloomy night of obscurity to the web.
	www.zittaw.com /graveyard.htm (234 words)

	The Poets.
		Blake was a poet, a painter and an engraver.
		Poet Laureate of England, 1930-1967; noted for his sea poems, such as "Sea-Fever" and "Cargoes".
		Poets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who, rebelling against Victorian standards, denounced him for sentimentality, insipidity, intellectual shallowness, and narrow patriotism.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/BiosPoets.htm (3002 words)

	Glossary Poetic Terms G
		Group of poets whose work was published in a series of volumes between 1912-1922 by Rupert Brooke, Harold Monro and Edward Marsh.
		Term coined by Matthew Arnold (in one of his Oxford lectures) to describe the lofty, elevated tone of poets such as Homer, Pindar, Dante and Milton etc.
		Group of 18th century poets who specialised in poetry on the subject of human mortality - often set in graveyards.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /glossary_poetic_terms_g.htm (298 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Metaphysical poets
		The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them.
		Their inventive, elaborate style was characterised by learned imagery and subtle argumentation, and the "metaphysical conceit", a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images such as in Andrew Marvell’s comparison of the soul with a drop of dew.
		Churchyard Poets or Graveyard Poets is a critical term applied in retrospect to a number of English poets of the 1750s to the 1790s who wrote in the vein of Thomas Grays Elegy in a Country Churchyard (1750).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Metaphysical-poets (2246 words)

	Churchyard poets - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Churchyard Poets" or "Graveyard Poets" is a critical term applied in retrospect to a number of English poets of the 1750's to the 1790's who wrote in the vein of Thomas Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard (http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc) (1750).
		These poets are also sometimes called "pre-Romantics." Despite the name, the term encompasses at least two major works written before Gray's Elegy (http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc): James Thomson's The Seasons (1726 - 1730) and Edward Young's Night Thoughts (1742 - 1745).
		What the term refers to is a set of characteristics that may apply to all the poets in question.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Churchyard_poets (232 words)

	Graveyard Poets Criticism
		The Graveyard poets were a group of eighteenth-century English poets who emphasized the subjects of mortality, death, and bereavement in their writings.
		While reveling in the images of death and the grave, the poets in the Graveyard school sought to describe the trappings of death in a way such that the reader would gain an appreciation of death as a transitional phase.
		While the works of the Graveyard poets include many of these elements, they also expand the range of emotional responses to death to include grief, tenderness, tearfulness, nostalgia, and other states of mind, which at times verge on an aesthetic pleasure in the contemplation of mortality.
	www.enotes.com /literary-criticism/graveyard-poets (436 words)

	graveyard school - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		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.
		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).
		Graveyard drug sessions of pupils from top school; Scandal as boys aged 12 and 13 are suspended for smoking cannabis.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-graveyar.html (483 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Thomas Gray
		Although he was one of the least productive poets (his collected works published during his lifetime amount to less than 1,000 lines), he is regarded as the predominant poetic figure of the middle decades of the 18th century.
		In 1757, he was offered the post of Poet Laureate, which he refused.
		A few of these include: Churchyard Poets or Graveyard Poets is a critical term applied in retrospect to a number of English poets of the 1750s to the 1790s who wrote in the vein of Thomas Grays Elegy in a Country Churchyard (1750).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Gray (1511 words)

	Graveyard Poets
		A group of mid- to late- eighteenth century poets who saw in the graveyard an occasion for reflection on human mortality.
		The writings of the Graveyard Poets frequently touched on themes of death, mortality, religion, and melancholy.
		These poets made use of three themes: retirement, "memento mori" (the reminder that the grave awaits) and the vanity of human pretensions.
	lucy3621.tripod.com /poets (256 words)

	Neurotic Poets: Edgar Allan Poe
		It was here that Edgar was to be raised, with his early influences being the stories of house slaves and the tales told by skippers and sea merchants.
		The dead and dying would always have a strong hold over Edgar, as demonstrated by the story that a six-year old Edgar was once "seized with terror" as he passed by a local graveyard, convinced that the spirits of the undead would run after him.
		While at the academy, he studied the Romantic poets such as Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, and Colderidge, and he allowed the untrue rumor that he was a grandson of Benedict Arnold to circulate (his mother's maiden name had been Arnold).
	www.neuroticpoets.com /poe (1336 words)

	Graveyard Poets
		Apparently a group of mid-eighteenth century poets in England wrote melancholy and mysterious poems on death.
		The work of these poets anticipated the melancholy aspects of the romantic period that followed.
		Among the poets of this school were Thomas Parnell, Robert Blair, Edward Young and Thomas Gray, whose “Elegy written in a country churchyard” is the most famous Graveyard poem.
	dublinpoetry.com /graveyard-poets (97 words)

	Poets&Writers, Inc.
		I notice that every material detail of the joke's setup is important: the stone, the implied graveyard, the implied visitor, the implied dead me, the quotation marks, the exclamation point, the informal word in the formal setting, the speed with which the word can be read, the word's size and its surrounding space.
		No less a figure than Goethe was racked by moments of shame about what he felt were cheesy, high-tech, mass-market editions of his works, having been taught that real poets make two handwritten copies of a real poem, one for the patron, one for the files.
		Poets and Writers™ is a registered trademark of Poets and Writers, Inc.
	www.pw.org /mag/wittig.htm (894 words)

	Graveyard poets
		The "Graveyard 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' (Blair: The Grave 23) in the context of the graveyard.
		The Graveyard Poets include Thomas Parnell, Thomas Warton, Thomas Percy, Thomas Gray, James MacPherson, Robert Blair, William Collins, Mark Akenside, Joseph Warton and Edward Young.
		The Graveyard Poets were notable and influential figures, who created a stir in the public mind, and marked a shift in mood and form in English poetry, in the second half of the 18th century, which eventually led to Romanticism.
	www.libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Churchyard_poets.html (288 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, was an American poet whose works, confessional in nature, engaged with the questions of history and probed the dark recesses of the self.
		Among the better known poems in the volume are "Mr Edwards and the Spider" and "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket." Lord Weary's Castle was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947.
		History deals with public history from antiquity onwards, and with modern poets Lowell had known; For Lizzie and Harriet describes the breakdown of his second marriage; and The Dolphin, which won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize, includes poems about his marriage to Caroline Blackwood and their life in England.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Robert_Lowell (484 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Death, Be Not Proud: The Graves of Poets
		For example, the poet D.H. Lawrence's remains were cremated, then his ashes were mixed in with cement to build an altar on a ranch in New Mexico.
		For those who visit gravesites of poets they admire, however, it is not about the grandeur of the spot, but about communing with the individuals.
		When poet Jane Kenyon died from leukemia in 1995, her body was taken to Proctor Cemetery in Andover, New Hampshire, where a gravestone marks the place where her widower, current U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall, will someday join her beneath a headstone which already bears his name.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/19256 (556 words)

	Volume B: American Literature, 1820-1865 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bryant was born in the backwoods of Massachusetts and raised by a strict Calvinist father.
		Under the influence of the British "graveyard poets" and William Wordsworth, who celebrated the majesty of nature, Bryant wrote the first draft of Thanatopsis in 1813 or 1814.
		Unfortunately, the life of a poet was not a practical possibility for the young Bryant.
	wwnorton.com /naal/vol_B/explorations/bryant.htm (598 words)

	Search results for "graveyard poets" :: American Poems
		O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and...
		The Martyr Poets -- did not tell -- But wrought their Pang in syllable -- That when their mortal name be numb -- Their mortal fate -- encourage Some -- The Martyr Painters -- never spoke -- Bequeathing -- rather -- to their Work -- That when their...
		I GIVE the undertakers permission to haul my body to the graveyard and to lay away all, the head, the feet, the hands, all: I know there is something left over they can not put away.
	www.americanpoems.com /search/graveyard_poets (1315 words)

	Gothic
		The genre drew many of its intense images from the graveyard poets Gray and Thompson, intermingling a landscape of vast dark forest with vegetation that bordered on excessive, concealed ruins with horrific rooms, monasteries and a forlorn character who excels at the melancholy.
		Gothic literature as a movement was a disappointment to the idealistic romantic poets for the sentimental character idealized by Ann Radcliffe could not transcend into reality.
		The development of the Gothic Novel from the melancholy overtures of sentimental literature to the rise of the sublime in the graveyard poets had a profound impact on the budding Romantic movement from Wordsworth to Shelley.
	piazza.iae.nl /users/sceav/hgengels/gothic.htm (473 words)

	The Augustan Age
		The literary circle around Pope considered Homer preeminent among ancient poets in his descriptions of nature, and concluded in a circuitous feat of logic that the writer who 'imitates' Homer is also describing nature.
		Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, was a rural poet in an urban era, and the poems of Miscellany Poems by a Lady (1713) were often observations of nature, largely free of neoclassical conventions.
		A further influential poet of this school was James Thomas, whose poetical work The Seasons, which appeared in separate volumes from 1726 to 1730 and beginning with Winter, was the most popular verse of the century.
	www.ruthnestvold.com /Augustan.htm (2266 words)

	'The Poets Of The Tomb' :: A poem by Henry Lawson :: PoetryConnection.net
		'The Poets Of The Tomb' :: A poem by Henry Lawson :: PoetryConnection.net
		Henry Lawson - The Poets Of The Tomb
		And though the graveyard poets long to vanish from the scene, I notice that they mostly wish their resting-place kept green.
	www.poetryconnection.net /poets/Henry_Lawson/19157 (448 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| The Graveyard School
		No, not a place (though it would look great on a diploma), the "Graveyard School" refers to a group of C18 poets — mostly male, which is why we here at LitGothic tend to think of them, affectionately, as "the Boneyard Boys" — whose writings frequently touched on themes of death, mortality, religion, and melancholy.
		Quite popular even into the early years of the C19, the Graveyard School poets were, not surprisingly, an important factor in the development of the Gothic novel, helping to create not only a vocabulary of gloomy imagery but a popular taste that recognized the emotional, moral, and even "psychological" value of that imagery.
		There's a substantial (if somewhat buggy) discussion of Graveyard Poetry at the International Dictionary of Literary Terms.
	www.litgothic.com /Topics/graveyard_school.html (166 words)

	The Graveyard Shift \| The Shows \| Fancy A Brew \| Planet Bods
		For those that were around at the time, The Graveyard Shift was and always will be, the best of Mark and Lard show.
		If the music policy didn't make the show compulsive listening, there were the features - a steady stream of poets, comedians, film and TV reviewers and other cultural commentators were featured, to talk about anything and everything.
		Whilst most understood that the pair were moving on to bigger and better things, there was sadness that such a great show would be leaving the air.
	www.planetbods.org /markandlard/shows/graveyardshift (505 words)

	Graveyard poets Criticism
		In the following essays, Wicker argues that Young strove to be original in his works and that he treated the melancholy of his day in a new fashion that led to Romanticism.
		This Romanticism can be seen in the Graveyard tradition, of which Young was one of the founders.
		In the following essay, originally published in 1781, Johnson provides a brief overview of Parnell's life and claims that his poems, while not works that stemmed from a great mind, have a pleasant sense about them which was enjoyable to the writer himself as well as the reader.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Graveyard_poets (190 words)

	The Millennium Library: Who's Who - Thomas Gray (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gray is often categorised as a poet of sensibility, a designation indicative of sympathetic awareness to the feelings of others, as opposed to the indifference of self-interest and the dispassionate detachment of reason.
		It is considered the finest poem derived from the tradition of the 'graveyard poets', a group of eighteenth century writers who found inspiration in graveyards and the contemplation of death.
		Like other poems of its type, Gray's 'Elegy' is pensively melancholy but not as grim and gothic as the work of other 'graveyard poets' such as Edward Young's 'Night Thoughts' or Robert Blair's 'The Grave'.
	www.millenniumlibrary.co.uk /millib/reference/info/Thomas+Gray/2 (439 words)

	Poets among the Stones by Ken Pobo
		If we are not present at the grave, we may be present in the graveyard or on the journey to it.
		In the graveyard, the living are unable to lift the speaker beyond the grief.
		She turns to three poets, all dead, Whitman, Dickinson, and Neruda, to be present for her.
	www.tcsn.net /jackie/Archive/poets_among_the_stones_by_ken_po.htm (2553 words)

	Brig o' Turk & Loch Achray Scotland Holiday Accommodation
		Poets Millais and Ruskin stayed in the village for four months in 1853.
		The Blacksmith is buried in the little graveyard up the lane a little on the left.
		Take a look at the picture of serenity westward from the graveyard then carry on up the narrow lane, past the schoolhouse on the right and a GUEST HOUSE named 'Frennich' on the left until you come to a fork in the road.
	www.incallander.co.uk /achray/brigoturk.htm (1631 words)

	Illinois State Poetry Society
		She is a member of the Poets Club of Chicago and the Illinois State Poetry Society.
		Most recently she has won 2 first-place awards and one second- place in the annual Poets and Patrons competition.In 2005 she was a guest of the Chinese government at a World Congress of Poets where one of her sonnets won a first prize.
		ISPS poets are invited to participate in a poetry reading for the residents of the assisted care unit at Sacred Heart Convent in Lisle (just east of the intersection of Maple and Yackley) at 10 a.m.
	www.illinoispoets.org (1951 words)

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