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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Thomas Gray (redirect from Thomas Gray (poet))
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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Romantic literature in English (section Other poets)
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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English literature (section Other poets)
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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Obituary poetry (redirect from Obituary poet)
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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British literature (section Other poets)
"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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Cupressus sempervirens (redirect from Graveyard Cypress)
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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1746 in poetry (section Akenside's "Balance of Poets")
(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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South Park Street Cemetery (redirect from The Park Street Graveyard, Kolkata)
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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Olšany Cemetery (redirect from Olansky graveyard)
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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Cross Bones (redirect from Cross Bones graveyard)
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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