• The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets", were a number of pre-Romantic poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations...
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  • Belgian videogame Graveyard (game), a game most commonly played by children on the playground, or at parties Graveyard poets, or Graveyard School, 18th-century...
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    easily but things of Humour." Gray came to be known as one of the "Graveyard poets" of the late 18th century, along with Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper...
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    Thomas Warton (category 18th-century English poets)
    Melancholy, a representative work of the Graveyard Poets. Warton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the son of poet Thomas Warton, the Elder, and younger...
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    commonly associated with early Gothic works were popularized by the Graveyard poets. They were also present in novels such as Daniel Defoe's A Journal...
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    novel and the novel of sensibility. This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations...
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    the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. This includes the graveyard poets, from the 1740s and later, whose works are characterised by gloomy...
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    Thomas Parnell (category 18th-century Irish poets)
    was also one of the so-called "Graveyard poets": his 'A Night-Piece on Death,' widely considered the first "Graveyard School" poem, was published posthumously...
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    sentiments, the obituary poets in one sense continue the program of meditations on death begun by the eighteenth-century graveyard poets, such as Edward Young's...
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    or the Mausoleum of Poets (Persian: مزارِ شاعران Mazār-e Shāerān or مزارِ سرایندگان Mazār-e Sorāyandegān) is a Maqbara (graveyard) belonging to classical...
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    Dr. Swift. However, when compared to other works by the so-called Graveyard poets, such as Blair's The Grave (1743), Gray's poem has less emphasis on...
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    bear hatred so deep, it can't coexist under heaven. Elegy Epitaph Graveyard Poets Lament Last words Mi último adiós Ryōkan Suicide note Xie Lingyun Yuan...
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    List of poetry groups and movements (category Lists of poets)
    self-identified by the poets that form them or defined by critics who see unifying characteristics of a body of work by more than one poet. To be a 'school'...
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    Ippolito Pindemonte (category Italian poets)
    Italian poet. He was an exponent of Italian neoclassicism and pre-romanticism, with poems of the pastoral genre and related to graveyard poets style. He...
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  • "were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen". The graveyard poets were a number of pre-Romantic English poets, writing in the 1740s and later, whose works...
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    William Cullen Bryant (category 19th-century American poets)
    emerged as one of the most significant poets in early literary America and has been grouped among the fireside poets for his accessible and popular poetry...
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    The Banani graveyard (Bengali: বনানী কবরস্থান) is a cemetery in the Banani neighbourhood of Dhaka. It is one of eight state-run graveyards in Dhaka and...
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  • Paposh Nagar Graveyard is one of the oldest graveyards located in Paposh Nagar, Karachi, Pakistan. In 2011, the cemetery drew attention as the site of...
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  • Thomas Parnell's A Night-Piece on Death is published, inaugurating the "Graveyard poets" movement. Joseph Addison – The Works of Joseph Addison Penelope Aubin...
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  • the past, both practising poets and academic critics have been chosen. On 16 May 2009, Ruth Padel defeated the Indian poet Arvind Mehrotra to become the...
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  • philosopher (died 1818) February 4 – Robert Blair, Scottish member of the "Graveyard poets" (born 1699) February 8 – Anton Josef Kirchweger, Latin Pietist author...
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    official name: Fiumei úti nemzeti sírkert, i.e. "Fiume Road National Graveyard") is the most famous cemetery in Budapest. It is one of the oldest cemeteries...
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    wreaths to adorn statues of Pluto, the classical ruler of the underworld. The poet Ovid, who wrote during the reign of Augustus, records the best-known myth...
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  • (born 1699), Scottish member of the "Graveyard poets" November 12 – Mary Leapor (born 1722), English kitchenmaid poet, from measles December 6 – Lady Grizel...
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    Kerry poets O'Donoghue, Ó Rathaille and Ó Súilleabháin, while Piaras Feiritéar is buried in the graveyard just outside. The Friary Abbey and graveyard seen...
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  • which is a poem written in blank verse on the subject of death and the graveyard. It is much less conventional than its gloomy title might lead one to...
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    further deterioration. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809–1831), teacher and poet, pioneer of the Young Bengal movement Sir William Jones (1746–1794), philologist...
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    Friedhof) is the largest graveyard in Prague, Czech Republic, once laid out for as many as two million burials. The graveyard is particularly noted for...
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    similar praise for Rahman, "It is true he has built on the ground of the 30s poets, but he has developed the ground, explored into areas they thought too dark...
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    also installed a brass plaque: Cross Bones Graveyard In medieval times this was an unconsecrated graveyard for prostitutes or 'Winchester Geese' By the...
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