"Though Casabianca and The Burial of Sir John Moore are actually nineteenth-century poems, they partake of that misty, moss-and-granite melancholy one associates with those of Gray’s contemporaries known as the Graveyard Poets (or the Boneyard Boys). These were a pallid bunch, for whom cemeteries were what bars and brothels would be for many French poets of the nineteenth century—a comfy home away from home. They were continually reminding us that we all have one foot in the grave.
Brad Leithauser
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It takes all sorts of poets to make up the poetic universe but I loved Leithauser's description of the Graveyard Poets as the Boneyard Boys. I'll stick to bars and coffee shops myself.
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