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The Grave
poem by Blair
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discussed in biography
- In Robert Blair
…remembered for a single poem, The Grave, which was influential in giving rise to the graveyard school (q.v.) of poetry.
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graveyard school
- In graveyard school
The graveyard school consisted largely of imitations of Robert Blair’s popular long poem of morbid appeal, The Grave (1743), and of Edward Young’s celebrated blank-verse dramatic rhapsody Night Thoughts (1742–45). These poems express the sorrow and pain of bereavement, evoke the horror of death’s physical…
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