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The Graveyard School: An Anthology
The poetry of the Graveyard School—gloomy meditations on mortality, often composed in churchyards—was immensely popular in 18th-century England and was an important forerunner of the Romantic period and a major influence on the development of the Gothic novel. Yet, despite the unquestioned significance of the Graveyard Poets, critical attention has been scant, and until now there has been no anthology of their writings.
The Graveyard School: An Anthology features works by thirty-three authors and provides a broad and comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of Graveyard poetry. Included are seminal works, such as Robert Blair’s “The Grave”, Thomas Parnell’s “A Night Piece on Death”, and excerpts from Edward Young’s Night Thoughts, as well as once-popular but now little-remembered poems by authors like Mark Akenside, James Beattie and William Collins. Of particular interest in this collection is its inclusion and discussion of authors not normally associated with the Graveyard School, such as Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth and Washington Irving, as well as a number of female poets, among them Susanna Blamire and Charlotte Smith.
Edited by Prof. Jack G. Voller, who provides an introduction and extensive annotations throughout, this volume of melancholy and macabre verse is certain to be welcomed by scholars and students of 18th-century and Gothic literature, as well as those readers interested in the darker side of literature.
The Graveyard School: An Anthology features works by thirty-three authors and provides a broad and comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of Graveyard poetry. Included are seminal works, such as Robert Blair’s “The Grave”, Thomas Parnell’s “A Night Piece on Death”, and excerpts from Edward Young’s Night Thoughts, as well as once-popular but now little-remembered poems by authors like Mark Akenside, James Beattie and William Collins. Of particular interest in this collection is its inclusion and discussion of authors not normally associated with the Graveyard School, such as Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth and Washington Irving, as well as a number of female poets, among them Susanna Blamire and Charlotte Smith.
Edited by Prof. Jack G. Voller, who provides an introduction and extensive annotations throughout, this volume of melancholy and macabre verse is certain to be welcomed by scholars and students of 18th-century and Gothic literature, as well as those readers interested in the darker side of literature.
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2015
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September 19, 2024
k queréis k os diga…….. prerromanticismo inglés y peña con una hiperfijación tocha por tumbas, cementerios y ruinas góticas?!?! entendedme, esto lo es TODO para mí-
May 18, 2020
a volume of wonderfully gloomy verses and the poets behind them.
November 25, 2018
Written in the era of syntactical challenges that support brain training, the verse in this collection is overwrought, dense, convoluted and typical of the period. Thomas Grey continues to be the crowning glory of graveyard poetics. The rest lie heavy in his shadow.
January 29, 2018
Each story in this collection stands alone as a great work. Together, the stories are a powerful force that has yet to release this reader!
February 6, 2020
A lot of poems on death, dread, and despair. They're mildly depressing...
November 16, 2021
Had to read it for class. Not a fan of most poetry but some pieces were really good like Southey’s “The Cross Roads.”
July 3, 2016
"We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us." - Keats
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