Graveyard school

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The Graveyard school was an 18th-century poetic movement in Britain characterized by meditative, melancholic reflections on death, mortality, and the sublime, often set in graveyards or nocturnal landscapes.

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Graveyard school canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary movement
poetic movement
countryOfOrigin Great Britain
genre poetry
hasCharacteristic blend of classical and Christian motifs
contemplation of death
didactic elements
emphasis on individual emotional experience
emphasis on the inevitability of death
focus on human vanity
focus on solitude
interest in ruins
interest in the sublime
meditation among tombs
meditative tone
melancholic mood
moral reflection
pre-Romantic sensibility
reflection on social inequality
religious reflection
slow, reflective pacing
somber diction
somber imagery
use of churchyard imagery
use of elegiac form
use of first-person speaker
use of nocturnal scenes
hasInfluenced Romanticism
surface form: English Romanticism

Gothic literature
pre-Romantic poetry
language English
literaryPeriod 18th century
location Great Britain
surface form: Britain
mainSubject afterlife
death
melancholy
mortality
religion
the sublime
time
transience of life
movementEndTime late 18th century
movementStartTime mid-18th century
typicalSetting churchyards
graveyards
nocturnal landscapes
rural scenes

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Progress of Poesy literaryMovement Graveyard school
Robert Blair movement Graveyard school
The Grave literaryMovement Graveyard school
A Night-Piece on Death literaryMovement Graveyard school