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 Graveyard poets Information
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 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. To this was... 
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Isabel St. John Bliss
14,836 words, approx. 50 pages
 In the following essay, Bliss maintains that Young's poem is much more than just a piece about death, and should be considered an expression of Christian apologetics.
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Critical Essay by W. Hutchings
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In the following essay, Hutchings attempts to demonstrate that the ambiguous syntax used by Gray when referring to death creates much uncertainty for the reader.
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Critical Essay by Cecil V. Wicker
6,924 words, approx. 23 pages
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.
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