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en-wikipedia-org-6704		Graveyard poets - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1834	227	70	At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert Blair's The Grave and Edward Young's Night-Thoughts. Havens, Harko de Maar and Eric Partridge have challenged the direct influence of Milton's poem, claiming rather that graveyard poetry came from a culmination of literary precedents.[3] As a result of the religious revival, the early eighteenth century was a time of both spiritual unrest and regeneration; therefore, meditation and melancholy, death and life, ghosts and graveyards, were attractive subjects to poets at that time. Many of the Graveyard School poets were, like Thomas Parnell, Christian clergymen, and as such they often wrote didactic poetry, combining aesthetics with religious and moral instruction.[3] They were also inclined toward contemplating subjects related to life after death,[4] which is reflected in how their writings focus on human mortality and man's relation to the divine.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6704.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6704.txt