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Graveyard School Poet 墓园诗派 The Graveyard poets were a group of pre-Romantic English poets in the 18th century.Their works mainly focus on the themes of mortality,death and bereavement.Their poems describe the physical manifestations of death,evoke subjective responses like fear and horror,and contemplate the phenomena connected with death like darkness,tomb and ghosts. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The poem was first published in 1751. Gray may, however, have begun writing the poem in 1742, shortly after the death of his close friend Richard West. An elegy is a poem which laments th