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Poets with tag Graveyard poets:

The "Graveyard Poets", also termed “Churchyard Poets” or "the Boneyard Boys” 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' elicited by the presence of the graveyard. Moving beyond the elegy lamenting a single death, their purpose was rarely sensationalist. As the century progressed, "graveyard" poetry increasingly expressed a feeling for the 'sublime' and uncanny, and an antiquarian interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry. The "graveyard poets" are often recognized as precursors of the Gothic literary genre, as well as the Romantic movement.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
Thomas Gray	1716-1771	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Classicism, Enlightenment, Gothic, Graveyard poets, Romanticism, Sonnet	11	257
William Cowper	1731-1800	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Graveyard poets, Romanticism	403	161

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