- "Churchyard Poets" or "Graveyard Poets" is a term applied to a number of English poets in the 1740s-1790s who wrote in the vein of Thomas Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard"
- sometimes called pre-Romantics
- each writes about melancholy, and each shows and interest in nature
- also an interest in "ancient" English poetic forms and folk poetry
- includes:
- Thomas Warton
- Thomas Percy
- Thomas Gray
- James MacPherson,
- Robert Blair
- William Collins
- Joseph Warton
Saturday, October 2, 2010
The Graveyard Poets
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