Churchyard Poetics

The familiar literary-critical category of ''graveyard poetry'' has made the eighteenth-century churchyard a commonplace in the period''s cultural imaginary: a location in which melancholy, religious poets get lost in imaginative reveries or didactic visions of the afterlife. By contrast, Churchyard Poetics: Landscape, Labour, and the Legacy of Genre shows how the churchyard takes on a new shape a...