TY - JOUR
AU - Cook, Daniel
AB - 136 BOOK REVIEWS remark that Morgan Llwyd was born in Cynfal, Merionethshire, ‘within sight of the present Trawsfynydd nuclear power station’ (p.115). The man seems to have been gifted with such visionary poetic zeal that this could, quite plausibly, be true. Mary-Ann Constantine University of Wales Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition. By Eric Parisot. Burlington VT, and Farnham: Ashgate.2013.184 p. £60 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-3473-3. ‘Graveyard Poetry’ is a ‘relatively modern literary term used by critics with some hesitancy’ (p.1), concedes Eric Parisot in this new study of a select body of poetry written between the early and the mid-eighteenth century that meditated on the transience of life, the persistence of death and the consolation of a Christian afterlife. ‘Literature of melancholy’, an alternative label, captures what Eleanor Maria Sickels once called the gloomy egoism of the works but is ultimately more reductive. For one thing, it does not speak to the robust religious and theological debates that rioted in the press during the period, a defining feature of the mode according to one of its leading contributors, Edward Young. Similarly dated labels such as ‘the literature of gloom’ (used by Harko G. De Maar in 
TI - Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid‐Eighteenth‐Century Poetic Condition. By Eric Parisot. Burlington VT, and Farnham: Ashgate. 2013. 18 ...
JF - Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
DO - 10.1111/1754-0208.12364
DA - 2017-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/graveyard-poetry-religion-aesthetics-and-the-mid-eighteenth-century-sMd1vC7Ly8
SP - 136
EP - 137
VL - 40
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -