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The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets", were a number of pre-Romantic poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and
An illustration for Young's Night-Thoughts by William Blake.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem's origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following t
First page of Dodsley's illustrated edition of Gray's Elegy with illustration by Richard Bentley
Thomas Gray, by John Giles Eccardt, 1747–48, National Portrait Gallery, London
Holograph manuscript of Gray's "Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard"
William Blake's watercolour illustration of the first stanza