English Literature / Unit 11 ENL 1027 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Graveyard Poets and the Cult of Sensibility
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The idea
The graveyard poets, including Gray, Young and Blair, wrote gloomy meditations on mortality and are seen as forerunners of the Gothic and of Romanticism. The sentimental novel, the novel of sensibility, prized fine feeling and emotional response, in reaction to Augustan reason.
In practice
Graves, melancholy, tears.
Where people slip
Sensibility answers the age of reason.
Your place on the trail
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