Definition: The Graveyard School was a group of 18th-century English poets. Depressing in their themes of death and dying, the poems were filled with dark and gloomy images--making us think of immortality.
The Graveyard School influenced later Gothic Literature.
The Graveyard School influenced later Gothic Literature.
Examples:
- Mark Akenside
- James Beattie
- Robert Blair
- Elizabeth Carter
- William Collins
- William Cowper
- Thomas Gray
- James Macpherson
- William Mason
- Thomas Parnell
- William Shenstone
- James Thomson
- Joseph Warton
- Thomas Warton
- Henry Kirke White
- Edward Young
