Graveyard Poets - Representative Works
REPRESENTATIVE WORKS
Robert Blair
The Grave (poetry) 1743
William Cullen Bryant
“Thanatopsis” (poetry) 1817
Philip Freneau
“The House of Night” (poetry) 1779
“The Indian Burying Ground” (poetry) 1787
Thomas Gray
“Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes” (poetry) 1748
“An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (poetry) 1751
Thomas Parnell
“A Hymn to Contentment” (poetry) 1714
“Night-Piece on Death” (poetry) 1722
Thomas Warton
“The Pleasures of Melancholy” (poetry) 1747
Edward Young
Night Thoughts (poetry) 1742-45
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