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Author: Robert Blair Publisher: ISBN: 9781941147863 Category : Death in literature Languages : en Pages : 0
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The poetry of the Graveyard School - gloomy meditations on mortality, often composed in churchyards - was immensely popular in 18th-century England and was an important forerunner of the Romantic period and a major influence on the development of the Gothic novel. Yet, despite the unquestioned significance of the Graveyard Poets, critical attention has been scant, and until now there has been no critical anthology of their works. The Graveyard School: An Anthology features works by thirty-three authors and provides a broad and comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of Graveyard poetry. Included are seminal works, such as Robert Blair's "The Grave", Thomas Parnell's "A Night Piece on Death", and excerpts from Edward Young's Night Thoughts, as well as once-popular but now little-remembered poems by authors like Mark Akenside, James Beattie, and James Hervey. Of particular interest in this collection is its inclusion and discussion of authors not normally associated with the Graveyard School, such as Alexander Pope and Washington Irving, as well as a number of female poets, among them Susanna Blamire and Charlotte Smith. Edited by Prof. Jack G. Voller, who provides an introduction and extensive annotations throughout, this volume of melancholy and macabre verse is certain to be welcomed by scholars and students of 18th-century and Gothic literature, as well as those readers interested in the darker side of literature.
Author: Robert Blair Publisher: ISBN: 9781941147863 Category : Death in literature Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The poetry of the Graveyard School - gloomy meditations on mortality, often composed in churchyards - was immensely popular in 18th-century England and was an important forerunner of the Romantic period and a major influence on the development of the Gothic novel. Yet, despite the unquestioned significance of the Graveyard Poets, critical attention has been scant, and until now there has been no critical anthology of their works. The Graveyard School: An Anthology features works by thirty-three authors and provides a broad and comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of Graveyard poetry. Included are seminal works, such as Robert Blair's "The Grave", Thomas Parnell's "A Night Piece on Death", and excerpts from Edward Young's Night Thoughts, as well as once-popular but now little-remembered poems by authors like Mark Akenside, James Beattie, and James Hervey. Of particular interest in this collection is its inclusion and discussion of authors not normally associated with the Graveyard School, such as Alexander Pope and Washington Irving, as well as a number of female poets, among them Susanna Blamire and Charlotte Smith. Edited by Prof. Jack G. Voller, who provides an introduction and extensive annotations throughout, this volume of melancholy and macabre verse is certain to be welcomed by scholars and students of 18th-century and Gothic literature, as well as those readers interested in the darker side of literature.
Author: Tom B. Stone Publisher: Skylark ISBN: 9780553485080 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 116
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Jackson needs to earn some money fast. When he mows Mr. Thompson's lawn, instead of being paid with money, he is paid with magic beans.
Author: Dr Eric Parisot Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 1472402197 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 323
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While immensely popular in the eighteenth century, current critical wisdom regards graveyard poetry as a short-lived fad with little lasting merit. In the first book-length study of this important poetic mode, Eric Parisot suggests, to the contrary, that graveyard poetry is closely connected to the mid-century aesthetic revision of poetics. Graveyard poetry's contribution to this paradigm shift, Parisot argues, stems from changing religious practices and their increasing reliance on printed material to facilitate private devotion by way of affective and subjective response. Coupling this perspective with graveyard poetry’s obsessive preoccupation with death and salvation makes visible its importance as an articulation or negotiation between contemporary religious concerns and emerging aesthetics of poetic practice. Parisot reads the poetry of Robert Blair, Edward Young and Thomas Gray, among others, as a series of poetic experiments that attempt to accommodate changing religious and reading practices and translate religious concerns into parallel reconsiderations of poetic authority, agency, death and afterlife. Making use of an impressive body of religious treatises, sermons and verse that ground his study in a precise historical moment, Parisot shows graveyard poetry's strong ties to seventeenth-century devotional texts, and most importantly, its influential role in the development of late eighteenth-century sentimentalism and Romanticism.
Author: Neil Gaiman Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0060530944 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.
Author: Tom B. Stone Publisher: Skylark ISBN: 9780553482256 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 116
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New student Algie (short for Algernon) Green is just beginning to enjoy his new school when he takes on a paper route and meets a bicycle-riding phantom.
Author: Tom B. Stone Publisher: Skylark ISBN: 9780553485325 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 116
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It's Easter and time for the annual Grove Hill Easter Egg Hunt. David Pike is taking his younger brother, weird Richie. Richie is excited, but for David it's one big yawn. But then David finds out that the Egg Hide'n'Seek will be held at Graveyard School. An Easter egg hunt near a graveyard? This year, it's going to be more egg-citing than it's cracked up to be!
Author: Tom B. Stone Publisher: Skylark ISBN: 9780553485240 Category : Young adult fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Skate McGraw and his family are spending Thanksgiving at his Uncle Edgar's house on an island. It sounds cool, but when they arrive, Skate immediately gets the creeps. The discovery of a skeleton in his uncle's study makes him uneasy. Then he begins to hear sounds at night--sounds like bony feet walking the floor, and bony fingers turning the doorknob of his room. And then he sees a familiar--and horrifying--figure. Has the skeleton on the skateboard returned for the ultimate revenge?
Author: Robert Blair
Author: Robert Blair
Author: Tom B. Stone
Author: Tom B. Stone
Author: Dr Eric Parisot
Author: Neil Gaiman
Author: Tom B. Stone
Author: Tom B. Stone
Author: Tom B. Stone
Author: Tom B. Stone
Author: Jason Strange