GRAVEYARD OF THE LAKES By Mark L. Thompson 424 pages, 64 illustrations, hardback, ISBN O-8143-2889-X $34:95; Wayne State University Press, Detroit; MI; (313) 57?-4603, Fax (313) 577-6131. Boasting a charisma all their own, the Great Lakes have a spellbinding appeal that endlessly...

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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.

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.

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.